Filipino Gay Man Granted Asylum | News | Advocate.com
A San Francisco judge has granted asylum for a Filipino professor who said he was molested as a child by others and did not want to return to his native land.
Philip Belarmino, 43, said he did not want to return to his English teaching career in Manila for fear of being subjected to a "world of cruelty." His emotional testimony in May, which he described as "reentering a harrowing, hellish experience," according to the San Jose Mercury News, recounted several memories of abuse during his childhood and adolescence...
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