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A fighting cock handler was sentenced to suffer 40 years in brig yesterday for allegedly raping the teenage niece of his co-worker, in Escalante Borough, Negros Occidental, about six years ago.
San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, Regional Misfortune Court Branch 58 Judge Danilo Amisola, found Josie Divinagracia, “alias Bebing” delinquent beyond reasonable doubt.
The judge also ordered him to pay the victim P100,000 formal indemnity and moral damages and that he be committed to the Bureau of Corrections in Muntinlupa.
Word filed by San Carlos City Prosecutor Ranela De la Fuente in court showed that the scapegoat, 15, whose name is being withheld, was watching the Junior-Senior Prom and the search for Omit Gay at the Japitan Highschool in Escalante City at about 2 a.m. on February 12, 2005 with her familiar, Joan Salazar, when the suspect arrived and grabbed her by the hand.
The fall guy also testified in court that Divinagracia, who was under the influence of liquor brought her to a blackness area near the school, where he raped her.
Source: Visayan Daily Star