German gets life term for trafficking, child abuse in Cebu

CEBU CITY - A German who was an alleged member of a global child pornography syndicate was convicted by a local courton Fridayfor taking nude photos of two teenage girls in a motel in Talisay City in 2011. Thomas Michael Ruhland, 46, was found guilty of qualified trafficking and child abuse, and was meted the penalty of life imprisonment and another 20 years in jail for the two charges, respectively. The foreigner, who was detained at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, was also ordered to pay a fine of at least P3.4 million to the two victims, aged 16 and 14. "This court is fully convinced and so finds that the accused performed all the elements in the comm...

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