Kultura na natin e.
If you're from a poor family, settle na lang. Easy money. Iligo na lang daw.
If you're from a conservative family, keep quiet na lang. Kasi malalagay sa kahihiyan ang pamilya. Baka mawalan pa ng connections sina Mama at Papa.
And if you're from liberal background, it's an uphill battle. You'll likely be accused of attacking the Church. And we all know what that means.
This is why I'm interested in finding out about the priest abuse situation in the Philippines. The Catholic Church is powerful. There are lots of devout Catholics here, a lot of them are poor, some of them uneducated (
madaling mauto ni Father).
A priest in charge of a poor, provincial parish, if that priest is a sexual predator/pedophile, that would be a real paradise for him. He can practically rape/molest any child or woman he wants to and have them pay off and/or brainwash them to think that they're the ones at fault and not him.
Now, I'm not saying all priests are like that. I'm sure 99% of priests are decent men. But conditions being what they are in the Philippines, you can see how a sexually perverted priest can easily get away what with the power the Catholic Church has over the populace.