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Charged with falsification of official document was Maj. Michael Nick W. Sarmiento who conducted the initial autopsy.
Also charged were Mark Anthony Rosales, Darwin Joseph Macalla, Gregorio Angelo Rafael de Guzman, Alain Chen and lawyer Neptali Maroto, and five of Dacera’s friends Romel Galido, Reymar Englis, Louie Delima, John Pascual dela Serna III, and Jezreel Rapinan,
The complaints against them were filed by the National Bureau of Investigation’s (NBI) Death Investigation Division (DID) on Friday, March 12.
“Results of the NBI investigation revealed the glaring inconsistencies in the PNP autopsy report,” the complaint said.
It said that the “results of the autopsy report conducted by the NBI Medico Legal Division chief revealed that in contrast to the autopsy report of P/Maj. Sarmiento, M.D., victim’s urinary bladder was full of urine and in fact was able to extract 130 ml (milligrams) of urine and no abrasion was found in her labia.”
Christine Dacera (Instagram)
He said the complete CCTV footage of the hotel is important to find out what really happened to Christine Dacera.
“We have been given USB but not given the DVR which contains the entire transcript of CCTV during those days Dec 31, 2020 and January 1, 2021,” he said outside the Makati City Prosecutor’s Office.
According to Reyes, Makati Police only provided them with splices of incidents, saying many footages are missing.
“In other words, they could splice edit so you don’t have a complete record,” Reyes said.
“Sometimes we wonder why they are not divulging everything on the part of the hotel and Makati police,” he added.
Christine Dacera (Instagram)
This is consistent with the findings in the autopsy report of the police.
During the continuation of the preliminary investigation on the case of Dacera on Wednesday (January 27), Makati Police submitted the result of Dacera’s histopathology to the Prosecutor’s Office.
In the said report, it was determined that Dacera’s underlying cause of death is ruptured aortic aneurysm.
Police Lt. Col. Joseph Palmero MD, the medico-legal officer who examined the body, said in his expert opinion, the manner of death as homicide is ruled out in Dacera’s case “because the aortic aneurysm is considered a medical condition.”
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NBI Deputy Director Ferdinand Lavin said in a text message on Thursday, Jan. 14, those who have already appeared before NBI investigators were “12 from Room 2207.”
It has been learned that Dacera rented with her friends Room 2209 of the City Garden Grand Hotel to celebrate the new year and that they mingled also with occupants of Room 2207.
Dacera was found unconscious last Jan. 1 in the bath tub of Room 2209 of the hotel that she rented with her friends to celebrate the new year.
She was rushed to the Makati Medical Center but was declared dead on arrival.
Lavin said investigators have also invited the men who stayed with Dacera at Room 2209.