00:00The Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group files a complaint for violation of the Anti-Hazing Act
00:07against resigned Ateneo men's basketball team head coach Tab Baldwin and 10 others.
00:11This over the deaths of student-athletes Rene Baterbonia and Divine Adili.
00:16Aside from Baldwin, all those named in the complaint were present during the team building in Dipakulaw, Aurora last June
00:228.
00:23Assistant Coaches John Jacinto, Dean Castaño, and Sandro Soriano, Strength and Conditioning Coaches Grant Derns and CJ Elumba,
00:30Physical Therapist Jeric Rueca, Student Managers Paulo Manuel Adeboso and Andrew Lorenzo Salud, and Utility Personnel Aris Pronce and Joel
00:38Rapa.
00:39During a press conference Friday, June 26, Interior Secretary John Vic Remulia says the seawater activity during the team building
00:46featured elements of hazing under the law.
00:48These include physical or psychological suffering, prerequisite for admission or requirement for continuing membership, and forced calisthenics and exposure to
00:56weather.
00:57Dati pong iniisip natin, ang hazing ay initiations lamang.
01:02Ngunit dito, ang team building at training ay nag-crossover papunta sa hazing.
01:11Remulia says the CIDG conducted 320 hours of interviews with around 60 respondents, including former Ateneo players who recounted near
01:19-drowning incidents during previous editions of the Blue Eagles team building.
01:23Among those were Aaron Black and G-Boy Babylonia, who told investigators they were on the verge of drowning before
01:29they were saved by the coaches.
01:30Yung una, nung tinanong namin si Tav Baldwin kung may nangyari ng ganton dati, namuntik malunod, sabi niya wala, wala,
01:40in his words in English, and we can provide the transcript.
01:44I do not recall, there was never any incident that this ever occurred.
01:50However, his former players testified that they nearly drowned.
01:56So, that in itself shows a great inconsistency.
01:59The Interior Secretary says while Ateneo may face civil liability over the deaths of Babylonia and Adili, university administrators were
02:07not aware of the seawater activity.
02:09Ateneo President Father Bobby Yap and Athletics Director M. Fernandez only found out after the incident.
02:15Remulia adds, team sponsors MVP Foundation and Smart Communications had no hand in the team building.
