(Eagle News)–Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Monday, Sept. 17, welcomed the conviction of retired Army Major General Jovito Palparan and two others over the 2006 disappearance of University of the Philippines students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan.
“Justice may come a bit late, but it does come. Let’s believe in that,” Guevarra said.
Palparan, Lieutenant Colonel Felipe Anotado and Staff Sergeant Edgardo Osorio were sentenced to reclusion perpetua, and were ordered to pay P100,000 to the kin of the victims, by Branch 15 Malolos Regional Trial Court judge Alexander Tamayo.
Rizal Hilario, another accused, remains at large.
