CONTROVERSIAL actress-vlogger Toni Fowler has denied allegations made by a social media watchdog that the music videos she posted online are “immoral and indecent.”

In the counter affidavit she filed before the Pasay City Prosecutor’s Office (PCPO) Thursday, Fowler insisted that the music videos were uploaded for artistic purposes only and that she did not violate Article 201 of the Revised Penal Code in relation to the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.

She further said that uploading the videos was part of her rights under the freedom of expression guaranteed by the constitution.

The complaint was filed by the Kapisanan ng Social Media Broadcasters ng Pilipinas Inc. (KSMBPI), led by its president Leo Olarte. It covered those videos that were uploaded to the social media account of Fowler on February 14 and May 14, 2023.

Aside from Fowler, artists Charisse Galang, Lucy Pearl Galang Ortiz and director Adrian Axl Flores were also named as respondents in the case.

According to the social media advocacy group, Fowler’s unregulated videos, which can still be accessed online, exhibited lewd clothes and sex toys, simulating sexual acts and intercourse with the use of sexually explicit words.

The KSMBPI argued that these videos are “patently offensive” under the law.

“Manifestly, the actions committed by the respondent in her music videos, albeit cloaked in the realm of music, are appealing to prurient interests and serve no other purpose but to satisfy the market for pornography,” the group said.

“Worse, respondent even had the grit to include in her videos a minor named ‘Paye Galang’ at the time of recording,” it further stated.

The KSMBPI said Fowler “willfully and knowingly exhibited lewd and obscene scenes or actions” in the said music videos “that are solely appealing to the prurient interests.”

“Respondent’s clothes, appearances and actions are indubitably considered sexually explicit. This is plainly intolerable,” the group said in the complaint.

Olarte said Fowler’s content was pornographic.

“Toni Fowler is part of our organization’s advocacy against anarchy and moral decay in social media toward nationbuilding for the best interest of our children and our children’s future,” he said.

Olarte vowed to pursue the criminal case against the celebrity.

“We will pursue both our criminal cases versus Toni Fowler until we succeed in getting the proper justice that the law warrants in these crimes committed by her so that everybody in our country’s social media world will know that nobody is above the law,” the KSMBPI president said.

If found guilty, Fowler could be slapped with a P6,000 up to P12,000 fine and/or a jail term of up to 20 years.

The next hearing was set this November 23, at 10 a.m. at the Pasay City Prosecutor’s Office.

Fowler was also the subject of a separate criminal complaint (cyber libel) filed by KSMBPI before the National Bureau of Investigation because she called the group’s officials liars in her online posts.