MANILA – In one of the very rare occasions, a member of the Philippine Senate “Committee on Silence” took the floor to denounce a cosmetic surgeon for the spread via the Internet of his alleged sex video with an actress.
In a privilege speech, administration Senator Ramon Revilla Jr. demanded the revocation of the license of Dr. Hayden Kho, himself a controversial cosmetic surgeon, for being behind a sex video with an actress, later identified as Katrina Halili, which was apparently taken without her consent.
An actor-politician, Revilla chairs the Senate Committee on Public Works as well as the Committee on Public Information.
But veteran media men covering the Senate also identify him as a member of chamber’s Committee on Silence for their failure, in particular, to participate in debates and discussions on vital and controversial issues like Charter change (Cha-cha) or the law to automate the May 2010 elections.
The other supposed members of the same committee are Revilla’s fellow actors, like Senators Lito Lapid and Jinggoy Estrada, the son of deposed president and pardoned plunderer Joseph Estrada.
Revilla gave a preview of things to come in his speech entitled, “A Doctor’s Perversity,” which he delivered in a mixture of the Filipino national language and English.
He minced no words in describing Kho for his supposed misconduct and apparent mental and psychological problem.
Among others, the visibly angry senator described Kho as a “maniac,” “pervert” and “insane” as he warned:
“How are you going to entrust your daughter to this kind of doctor? This perversity poses a risk to the public that, according to studies, will escalate to further acts of perversity. Let us not wait for him to have more victims.”
Kho himself became controversial because he is the boyfriend of Dr. Vicky Belo, known as the cosmetic surgeon to the stars. The entertainment media have dubbed their relationship as a “May-December romance” because Belo is much older than Kho who is in his early 30s.
Revilla accused Kho of taking the sex video in his tryst with Halili without her consent, which he described as conduct unbecoming for a professional to destroy the reputation of and humiliate another person by circulating what should be treated as an intimately private activity.
He admitted he himself watched the video and found its proliferation via the Internet disgusting.
“He does not know how to respect women,” Revilla said, referring to Kho. “It’s like he has no mother and sister. If you ask me, this person is not in his right mind. And according to the Medical Act (of the Philippines), this doctor can be punished for insanity.”
Besides, such lewdness was enraging as it took advantage of the “trust, confidence and emotions” of Halili, Revilla stressed.
He disclosed he received reliable information that two other sex videos allegedly involving Kho with other women, also entertainment personalities, have been circulating and are being sold in the black market.
In the case of Halili, Revilla disclosed she has become depressed and has been staying in her room most of the time following the showing of the sex video in the Internet.
On Wednesday, a “prim and proper” Halili, accompanied by her lawyer, made a dramatic entrance at the Senate to confirm to Revilla and the other senators that she was, indeed, the principal character in the sex video.
Halili told Revilla she was filing charges against Kho before the National Bureau of Investigation and the Professional Regulation Commission where she would seek the cancellation of Kho’s medical license for alleged grave misconduct and violation of the country’s law penalizing violence against women and children.
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