The City Prosecutor of Makati cleared Christine Dacera's companions of drug violation, obstruction of justice, perjury, and reckless imprudence resulting in homicide complaints.
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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.”
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 9) The parents of Christine Dacera are seeking the immediate relief of the Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) medico-legal officer who handled their daughter s body following her death.
Jose Nestor and Sharon Dacera filed an administrative complaint this week against PMAJ Michael Nick Sarmiento for gross negligence and gross incompetence in the irregular and inaccurate preparation and submission of a medico-legal report and death certificate in relation to their daughter s demise.
The complaint recounted that the younger Dacera was declared dead after being rushed to the Makati Medical Center on New Year s Day. Her body was then placed temporarily in a refrigerator facility in the hospital before being transported to the Rizal Funeral Homes in Pasay City around 9:30 a.m. the next day. Sarmiento then prematurely ordered that the 23 year-old s body be embalmed without the conformity of the family and without having first