Senate sets probe on Hayden sex videos on Thursday

MANILA, Philippines - The Senate has scheduled on Thursday its investigation on the proliferation of videos showing celebrity doctor Hayden Kho engaging in a sexual act with different women, including actress Katrina Halili. The committees on youth, women and family relations, headed by Senator Ma. Ana Consuelo Madrigal, and public information and mass media, headed by Senator Alan Peter Cayetano set the hearing 1:30 p.m. May 28. Invited in the probe were Halili through lawyers Marlito Tan and Raymund palad; Kho through lawyer Lorna Kapunan; Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral; Human Rights chairperson Leila De Lima. Also invited were Rey Anthony Chua, chairman of the Commission on Information and Communication Technology; Director General Jesus Verzosa, chief of the Philippine National Police; lawyer Nestor Mantaring, director of National Bureau of Investigation; and Dr Cindy Dollente-Ang, president of the Philippine Alliance Against Pornography. The investigation stemmed from the privilege speech of Senator Ramon Revilla Jr entitled “A Doctor’s Perversity" where he scored Kho for recording her sexual activities with the women without their consent and posting it on the Internet. Kho had already apologized to those affected by his collection of sex videos but maintained that he had nothing to do with its spread on the Internet. Halili, for his part, had refused to accept Kho's apology, saying that the celebrity doctor should suffer the consequences of his actions. The actress had also sought the revocation of Kho's medical license. - Amita Legaspi, GMANews.TV