Miss Earth Guam alleges sexual misconduct in Manila pageant

Daily Post Staff Nov 9, 2018

Miss Earth Guam Emma Mae Sheedy alleged in an Instagram post Thursday that a sponsor of the Miss Earth 2018 international pageant in the Philippines had sexually harassed her. 

Canada's Miss Earth Jaime Yvonne Vandenberg and England's Miss Earth Abbey Anne Gyles-Brown made similar allegations on their own Instagram posts, which were also published by Philippine news organizations and on CNN Philippines online Thursday. 

Sheedy posted that a pageant sponsor from the Manila Yacht Club had made inappropriate comments and inappropriately touched her. Manila hosted the pageant in May.

"I was pulled aside multiple times to be invited to Boracay, private islands and into his house and insisted that I and 'the latino women dance for him,'" Sheedy posted. She said the sponsor "grabbed my bare backside at the National Costume Competition where I was able to push him away, but he consistently told me not to tell anyone about any of the instances."

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