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(Eagle News) — The Malolos Regional Trial Court has denied former Major General Jovito Palparan’s appeal for it to overturn its earlier decision finding him guilty of serious illegal detention and kidnapping charges in connection with the disappearance of University of the Philippines students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno. In his 60-page appeal filed on Sept. 19, Palparan noted what he said were the flawed testimonies that the court cited in sentencing him to reclusion perpetua, […]
(Eagle News) — The family of the 17-year-old girl who went missing in Muntinlupa but was later found denied that her disappearance was just a “prank.” In a Facebook post, Bea Policarpio said her sister Ica, who was found safe in Laguna over the weekend, denied she had joined a so-called “48-hour challenge,” noting that the 17-year-old had “no knowledge whatsoever” of the game in the first place. The 48-hour challenge, which is supposedly […]
(Eagle News) — A Quezon City court on Thursday acquitted Major Harry Baliaga Jr. of arbitrary detention charges that stem from the abduction of activist Jonas Burgos over 10 years ago. Branch 216 Presiding Judge Alfonso Ruiz II made the acquittal after ruling that the prosecution “failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt the identity of (the) accused as the person who abducted and arbitrarily detained (Burgos).” “No eyewitness testified to identify the accused Baliaga as […]
