The Senate’s initial investigation into the controversial sex video between Dr. Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili unearthed secrets, exposed lies, including information on drugs and sex trysts and romance of the celebrity doctor with other women.
Kho, who was forced to appear at the hearing after the Senate committee on youth, women and family relations headed by Sen. Jamby Madrigal rejected his request for a closed-door executive session, admitted to abnormal sexual activities including his fetish to film his trysts with various women.
The already electrically-charged atmosphere inside the Pecson room where the hearing was held was further aggravated when a retired policeman poured a bottle of water over the head of Kho minutes after the latter entered the jampacked room.
Madrigal ordered the Senate’s Office of the Sergeant at Arms (OSAA) to arrest Abner Afuang, who is also a former mayor of Pagsanjan, Laguna.
OSAA chief Jose Balajadia said Afuang was wearing a National Press Club (NPC) ID.
Balajadia said he heard Afuang saying, "Baboy ang tingin ko sa kanya, hindi tao" when he was collared by security and was escorted out of the room.
Kho said he was undergoing psychiatric counseling, and attributed his sexual tendencies to a childhood experience wherein he was caught on video by a woman without his consent.
In Thursday's hearing, Kho divulged that it was Halili who supplied him with illegal drugs while taping their sex act. An embattled Halili, in tears, refuted the allegations.
Kho said Halili urged him to use ecstasy, a drug which gives a user a feeling of elation. He also admitted to having used illegal drugs even when having sex with other women.
But when pressed by the senators who were present to name who he said supplied him with drugs, Kho refused to cooperate saying there are threats to his life and his family.
Kho was unwilling to disclose the name of the illegal drugs source even when the senators said they could do so in executive session.
However, Halili denied she ever used illegal drugs and said she is prepared to undergo a drug test at the Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to prove she is negative of the substance.
In a statement read to the committee, Halili thanked those who supported her and her fight for justice.
Kho’s lawyer Lorna Kapunan had earlier threatened that her client will walk out if the senators would conduct a public hearing of the case.
This was even after Madrigal had assured both camps that there would be no viewing of the videos because "it has already been viewed by the public."
But Sen. Jinggoy Estrada ignored their threat made by Kho and maintained that the hearing should be done openly for the benefit of the public who wants to know more information of the case.
"I want to make this public… Do not question the legislative intent of the Senate… I demand the presence of Kho before the Senate," Senate Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada firmly told Kapunan.
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