The Supreme Court has dismissed the cases for rape by sexual intercourse and acts of lasciviousness filed against TV host Vhong Navarro for lack of probable cause. READ:
“To suggest that a prosecutor turn a blind eye to such glaring and manifest inconsistencies — under the premise that the evaluation thereof would already touch on the complainant’s credibility to be solely assessed in a full-blown trial — would be to compel the prosecutor to satisfy himself or herself to mere allegations in a complaint, and abdicate his or her bounden duty to screen cases for trial, thus passing the buck to the trial courts,” the SC added.
Concurring in the decision are Associate Justices Alfredo Benjamin S. Caguioa, Samuel H. Gaerlan, Japar B. Dimaampao, and Maria Filomena D. Singh. In filing her complaint, Cornejo alleged that Navarro pinned her down and touched her private parts, but when he was about to rape her, her friends arrived at her condominium unit in Taguig City on January 22, 2014.
The model then filed a second complaint alleging that Navarro again assaulted her on January 17, 2014. A third complaint was also filed providing details on the January 17 and 22, 2014 incidents. But, in dismissing the complaints, the prosecutors said Cornejo’s accounts “suffer from a very serious credibility issue.”The CA, however, reversed the DOJ prosecutors’ findings, saying “the preliminary investigation is not the proper venue to rule on the respondent’s guilt or innocence.
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