Filipino teacher in Hawaii arrested for alleged sex with minor and distributing child porn

A Filipino teacher in Oahu, Hawaii was arrested for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old boy, and distributing child pornography since 2019.

Alden Bunag, 34, a substitute teacher at Pearl City High School allegedly committed the crimes from November 2019 through at least October 2021. He remains in custody.

After a cybertip in July led federal investigators to a private school teacher in Philadelphia who had allegedly uploaded child pornography. A warranted search of that teacher’s home found communication with someone named “Alden.”

The two allegedly exchanged nearly 3,400 messages and hundreds of images and video files over seven months. Also uncovered were videos showing an adult man and a minor boy engaged in sex acts, non-pornographic photos showing Bunag’s students, and anime photographs, though it wasn’t certain that Bunag was the man in the videos.

Alden Bunag reportedly admitted that he had been having sex with one of his former students whom he knew was a minor, and that he recorded the acts. SCREENGRAB HNN

But investigators said they were sure Bunag had sent videos of himself engaged in sex acts with a 13-year-old student. In some chats Bunag claimed that he had sex with the boy at school during lunch breaks.

Bunag reportedly admitted that he had been having sex with one of his former students whom he knew was a minor, and that he recorded the acts.

Bunag appeared in court Thursday, June 16. He has a detention hearing set for June 21 and a preliminary hearing on June 27.