TV contractors Richard Cruz and Jojo Nones. Screengrab from Senate YouTube Sandro Muhlach ‘s alleged abusers finally faced the Senate amid allegations of sexual harassment against them, lamenting that they might have been prejudged because they are gay. At the hearing of the Senate committee on public information and mass media, TV contractors Jojo Nones and Richard Dode Cruz insisted on their innocence on Sandro’s allegations that he was sexually abused following the GMA Network’s gala night on July 20.
“Bakla kami, oo. Pero hindi kami gumagawa ng masama sa kapwa. Bakla kami, oo, at may takot kami sa Diyos,” said Nones, reading from a prepared statement explaining their absence from the previous hearing.
Nones and Cruz took turns in reading their joint statement, at some point their voices breaking as they tried to hold back tears. Both the TV consultants stood their ground, insisting on their innocence. “Hindi kami gumawa ng kahit anong sexual harassment or abuse laban kay Sandro Muhlach.
Sa pagkakataong ito sa harap ninyong lahat, mariing itinatanggi po namin ang lahat ng mapanirang akusasyon na ito laban sa amin,” they said. (We did not do any sexual harassment or abuse against Sandro Muhlach. This time, we are here in front of you all and we vehemently deny all the accusations against us.
) Nones and Cruz further said that contrary to public knowledge, they are not GMA executives and are only independent contractors of the network who are at the mercy of the.