The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has denied entry to four foreign nationals previously convicted of sex crimes abroad.
BI officers at the Ninoy Aquino, Clark, and Mactan-Cebu international airports implemented exclusion orders against the offenders, including Americans Julian Johnson and Charles White, New Zealander Stefan Andrew Alletson, and Canadian Leo Paul Houle.
Johnson, convicted in the U.S. in 1996 for lewd acts with a minor, arrived at Clark from Taipei, while Alletson, a former football coach, was convicted in New Zealand for sending obscene photos to minors.
Houle was stopped in Cebu for child pornography and sexual conspiracy offenses, while White, convicted in 2007 for a sexual act with a 15-year-old, was barred at NAIA.
“The Philippines will never be a safe haven for convicted predators,” BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado said, adding that all four have been permanently blacklisted.
