High-profile rape cases in the Philippines



High-profile rape cases in the Philippines

Researched and compiled by GMA News Research using the following Sources: , Philippine Headline News Online. Supreme Court decisions | |

|Year |Victim(s) |Suspect(s) |Notes |

|Chiong rape case |

|July 16, 1997 |Marijoy Chiong, college beauty |The Supreme Court sentenced to death on February 3, 2004 the|Jacqueline and Marijoy were waiting for a ride home when they|

| |queen, raped and killed |following suspects: |were forced into a car at about 10 p.m. on July 16, 1997 at |

| |Jacqueline Chiong, raped  |Francisco Juan "Paco" Larrañaga, a scion of the influential |the Ayala Center Cebu. |

| |(disappeared) |and powerful Osmeña clan | |

| | |Jozman Aznar, whose family owns a hospital and a school  |The sisters were brought to a house in Barangay Guadalupe, |

| | |Rowen Adlawan |Cebu City, where they were raped. Then they were brought to |

| | |Ariel Balansag  |Sitio Tan-awan in Carcar town, about 40 km south of here, |

| | |Alberto Caño |where they were again molested. |

| | |James Anthony Uy, one of the seven suspects, was spared from| |

| | |the death penalty because he was only 16 at the time the |Marijoy's badly bruised body was found in a ravine in Sitio |

| | |crime was committed |Tan-awan a day after the abduction. Jacqueline's body remains|

| | |James Andrew Uy, older brother of James Anthony, was |missing to this day. |

| | |originally sentenced to death, but was downgraded to life | |

| | |imprisonment after the court found out that he was only 17 | |

| | |years old when the crime was committed.  | |

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|Jalosjos case |

|1996 |11-year old girl, raped |Zamboanga del Norte Congressman Romeo Jalosjos was found |Statutory rape case.  |

| | |guilty beyond reasonable doubt of two counts of statutory | |

| | |rape and six counts of acts of lasciviousness..  | |

| | |The Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's decision | |

| | |sentencing Jalosjos to two reclusion perpetua. He was also | |

| | |ordered to pay the additional amount of P50,000.00 as civil | |

| | |indemnity for each count of statutory rape and acts of | |

| | |lasciviousness.  | |

| | |The SC also increased to P50,000.00 the award of moral | |

| | |damages for each count of acts of lasciviousness. .  | |

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|Sarmenta-Gomez rape slay case |

|June 28, 1993 |Mary Eileen Sarmenta, 21, UP Los |The Supreme Court found Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio |Supreme Court decision on the Allan Gomez-Eileen Sarmenta |

| |Baños student, raped and killed |Sanchez and six others were found guilty of seven counts of |rape-slay |

| | |rape with homicide. | |

| |Allan Gomez, 19, boyfriend of |George Medialdea | |

| |Sarmenta, killed  |Ziolo Ama | |

| | |Baldwin Brion | |

| | |Luis Corcolon | |

| | |Rogelio Corcolon | |

| | |Pepito Kawit | |

| | |Each of them were  sentenced to seven reclusion perpetua and| |

| | |were ordered to pay the respective heirs of Eileen Sarmenta | |

| | |and Allan Gomez P700,000.00 as additional indemnity. | |

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|Vizconde Massacre |

|June 30, 1991 |Carmela Vizconde, 17, raped and |Sentenced to a jail term of reclusion perpetua on January 6,|The verdict came eight and a half years after the crime |

| |killed |2000 by Judge Amelita G. Tolentino of the Paranaque Regional| |

| | |Trial Court:  | |

| |Estrellita Vizconde, a |Hubert Jeffrey P. Webb, son of former Senator Freddie Webb | |

| |businesswoman, killed |Antonio "Tony Boy" Lejano II, (son of actress-singer Pinky | |

| |Jennifer Vizconde, killed |de Leon and nephew of actor Christopher de Leon)  | |

| | |Hospicio "Pyke" Fernandez  | |

| | |Miguel "Ging" Rodriguez | |

| | | Michael Gatchalian | |

| | | Peter Estrada | |

| | |Meted a jail term of 11 years, four months and one day to 12| |

| | |years: | |

| | |former policeman Gerardo Biong, who was convicted for being | |

| | |an accessory to the rape and homicide by allegedly helping | |

| | |the accused tamper with evidence | |

| | |Ordered the immediate arrest of: | |

| | | Artemio "Dong" Ventura (at large when the verdict came out)| |

| | |Joey Filart (at large when the verdict came out) | |

|Maggie de la Riva case |

|June 26, 1967 |movie actress Magdalena "Maggie" de |Four suspects were convicted of forcible abduction with rape|Read the Supreme Court decision on the Maggie de la Riva case|

| |la Riva, 25, single |and of three other crimes of rape. Each of them were | |

| | |sentenced to four death penalties and were ordered to pay de| |

| | |la Riva P10,000.00 each. | |

| | |Executed in 1972 full view of television cameras were: | |

| | |Jaime G. Jose | |

| | |Basilio Pineda, Jr. | |

| | |Edgardo P. Aquino | |

| | |Rogelio Cañal, one of the four, died in prison on December | |

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