Hilton Munro, a former private school teacher in Melbourne and head of an international school in China has been charged with sexual abuse of young Filipino boys ages nine to fourteen. Mr. Munro allegedly used a fourteen-year-old boy to recruit other young boys and bring them to his hotel room at a beach resort in Cebu. A local taxi driver, Gilbert Andrada, who has also been charged with child sex offences, allegedly brought the boys to the hotel. Munro has denied the allegations and claims that the young boys were his friends. He was previously found not guilty of sexually assaulting a fourteen-year-old boy in the dorm of a Melbourne boarding school in 2003. Sheryl Bautista, deputy head of the Philippines’ anti-human trafficking task force, told the Cebu Daily News that Mr. Munro allegedly paid the boys between the equivalent of $12 and $25 in Philippine pesos. Munro has been charged with human trafficking and child abuse. He is currently being held in custody and prosecutors plan to commence proceedings within fifteen days.
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