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Here are some excerpts from what the Manila Police District said was an online exchange among members and alumni of the Aegis Juris fraternity. Some of those who participated in the exchange are already full-fledged lawyers. Their identities have been concealed, pending the MPD’s filing of additional charges against them. The quotes are also not in order. “May news na kung nalinis na frat (library)? “If worse puntahan ka, just deny it, for me, let […]
(Eagle News) — Senators on Wednesday cited Aegis Juris fraternity member Arvin Balag in contempt and subsequently ordered his detention. This was after Balag repeatedly refused to answer pointblank Senator Grace Poe, who asked whether he was indeed the president of the Aegis Juris fraternity as claimed by other members. Balag repeatedly invoked his right against self-incrimination instead. “For the position you’re holding in the frat, you’re invoking your right?” Poe, visibly irked, said. Balag […]
(Eagle News) — The names of at least six individuals affiliated with the Aegis Juris fraternity who were present during the initiation rites of hazing victim Horacio Castillo III, and the circumstances leading to his death were released on Wednesday. Based on the testimony provided by Solano during a Sept. 25 executive session, and which was read out during the Senate hearing, it was OJ Onofre who called Solano on Sept. 17, asking him to go […]
Lawyer denies mother and son planned to escape; says they had “return ticket” to PHL (Eagle News) — The camp of Ralph Trangia, a primary suspect in the death of hazing victim Horacio Castillo III, want the items recovered by the police from the Aegis Juris fraternity library where the rites took place excluded as evidences. This is according to lawyer Rowell Ilagan, who was with his clients Trangia and his mother Rosemarie upon their arrival at the […]
(Eagle News) — The family of Horacio Castillo III has plans of including University of Sto. Tomas Faculty of Civil Law dean Nilo Divina and “other officials” of the school in the criminal complaint against those believed responsible in hazing death of the UST student. Without naming additional names, the Castillos’ lawyer, Lorna Kapunan, told reporters they would include the names of Divina and the others in a supplemental affidavit. She told reporters their […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities on Thursday recovered at least three paddles from the Aegis Juris fraternity where hazing rites that resulted in the death of Horacio Castillo III are believed to have taken place. It was still unclear if these had been used on Castillo, though. Supt. Erwin Margarejo, Manila Police District spokesperson, said they would be subjected to analysis so it could be determined if Castillo’s blood was there. He said forensic evidence has […]
(Eagle News) — Police retrieved “object evidence” from the Aegis Juris library, which is where hazing rites that led to the death of Horacio Castillo III are believed to have taken place, on Thursday, the same day a primary suspect, John Paul Solano, was released. Supt. Erwin Margarejo, Manila Police District spokesperson, refused to specify what this evidence was, but noted that it would be used as “supplementary evidence” against those believed responsible for the […]
(Eagle News) — Fraternity members used three vehicles to take hazing victim Horacio Castillo III to the hospital. This is contrary to initial reports there were only two–the red pickup registered to Antonio Trangia, father of Ralph Trangia, an officer of the Aegis Juris fraternity; and the motorcycle used by John Paul Solano, who surrendered to Senator Panfilo Lacson on Friday. Chief Supt. Joel Coronel, Manila Police District head, said during the hearing of the […]
(Eagle News) — Some senior members of the Aegis Juris fraternity are coddling those who are believed behind the death of Horacio Castillo III. This was revealed by Chief Supt. Joel Coronel, Manila Police District director, during the Senate hearing of the committee on public order and dangerous drugs on the hazing victim’s death. Asked by Senator Grace Poe if any one of those senior members was with them, Coronel said “there was no direct […]
(Eagle News) — John Paul Solano, a primary suspect in the death of Horacio Castillo III, said on Monday that he initially lied to the police about where he found the hazing victim’s body because a fraternity member told him to do so. Solano, who spoke before the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs, declined, however, to say who exactly told him to do this at that time. He said he would just […]
(Eagle News) — Only 15 suspects of 419 suspects in hazing deaths have been convicted since 2002. This is according to Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, who quoted data from the Philippine National Police Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management. According to Gatchalian, who spoke at the start of the hearing into the death of Horacio Castillo III on Monday, this represents a conviction rate of a “measly” 3.6 percent. Present in the hearing were Castillo’s parents; […]
(Eagle News) – All officers and members of the Aegis Juris fraternity had been preventively suspended by the University of Sto. Tomas Faculty of Civil Law which barred their entry to the UST campus. This was following the death of a 22-year old freshman law student Horacio Tomas “Atio” Castillo III in a reported hazing incident involving the fraternity. The preventive suspension was effective September 18, 2017 according to Memorandum Order No. 2017-Sept-18-01 posted […]
