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Former singer said he was also raped by GMA musical director

A FORMER talent of the GMA 7, Gerard Santos, on Monday told a Senate public hearing that when he was 15 years old, he was raped by a former musical director of the television network.

Santos was invited as a resource person at the resumption of the Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media inquiry on the policies of TV networks and artist management agencies with regard to complaints of abuse and harassment.

Gerard Santos. SENATE PHOTO