Korean charged with detaining, drugging, raping Pinay tutor

MANILA, Philippines – A South Korean was charged on Monday with detaining, drugging, and raping his 23-year-old English tutor on several occasions last month. Choi Chan, a 51-year-old native of Seoul, was charged at the Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) after Assistant City Prosecutor Rodrigo T. Eguia found probable cause in the case. Eguia recommended no bail for the accused. According to records, Chan was arrested on the afternoon of October 31 by members of Station 5 of the Manila Police District (MPD) in a rescue operation at the Imperial Garden Hotel on Mabini Street in Malate, Manila, where the accused is temporarily billeted. The tutor said that Choi had been holding her captive at his hotel room for three days, drugging her and repeatedly raping her. The woman met Choi through a friend. In her statement to the Women and Children Protection Desk, the tutor said she met Choi early in the morning of October 29 at the Soho Hotel in Malate, Manila, for the tutorial. Choi had reserved a room at that hotel. She said before she could start teaching, Choi offered him a glass of water. After drinking it, she felt dizzy. Choi then molested her. But when Choi went out of the room for a few minutes early in the morning of October 31, she managed to call her friend to ask for help. The policemen and hotel employees who rescued the victim in the afternoon of that day found her still in a drugged state but coherent enough to relate her ordeal. - GMANews.TV