PHOTO FROM CHRISTINE DACERA’S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT/ MANILA BULLETIN
“The Dacera family was not surprised that the rape with homicide case filed by the police was dismissed because there’s so many irregularities,” Reyes, the family lawyer and spokesperson, told the Manila Bulletin in a phone interview.
The Makati City Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the charges of rape with homicide against 11 suspects in the death of the flight attendant for lack of probable cause.
“We were not surprised na ganito resolution ng fiscal. Remember, ginamit ng Makati Police ay medical report ni Dr. Sarmiento saying natural cause ang pagkamatay (We were not surprised of the fiscal’s resolution. Remember, the Makati Police used the medical report of Dr. Sarmiento saying her cause of death was natural cause),” he stressed.
PHOTO FROM DACERA’S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT
“There are many options on our part. The Dacera family can go to the Department of Justice to appeal this dismissal or we can refile this case,” Brick Reyes, lawyer of the Dacera family, said on Tuesday, April 27.
“We are not going to say amen to this dismissal because we are looking for truth and justice not only for Christine Dacera,” Reyes stressed.
In a 19-page resolution dated April 23, Assistant City Prosecutor Joan G. Bolina-Santillan said “this office finds that the evidence presented are insufficient to engender a well-founded belief that rape, homicide, or rape with homicide has been committed.”
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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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