Five rape raps heaped on EX-PNP officer
Leonilda Abadia accused Police Senior Superintendent Cesario Darantinao Jr. after she was purportedly assaulted during her birthday on January 20, 2009.
Abadia, wife of Police Superintendent Huberto Abadia, said that around 9:00 a.m., she held a meeting with Darantinao to discuss details of a meeting she attended earlier at Police Regional Office 11 in Davao City.
Abadia recounted that when she and Darantinao were already alone in the office, Darantinao suddenly kissed her.
“Apparently dissatisfied, [Darantinao] tightly hugged the complainant and further kissed her on the lips thus leaving the complainant but to push him away from her,” read an Office of the Ombudsman resolution.
Abadia, also president of the PNP Officers Ladies Club, the organization composed of spouses of PNP officers, allegedly suffered more four days later when Darantinao asked her to visit him in his office.
During the encounter, Darantinao “suddenly grabbed and forcibly dragged her” where she found herself alone again with her alleged assailant.
Darantinao then allegedly proceeded to violate and molest the woman “with the use of force,” Abadia wrote in her original complaint.
“The complainant had attempted to disclose her ordeal but would always be prevented by fear taking into account its adverse effects to her career and family not to mention the violent reaction that her husband would possibly take,” the resolution read.
Overall Deputy Ombudsman Or- lando Casimiro junked Abadia’s complaint on May 24, 2011.
But Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-morales reversed Casimiro’s ruling on January 26 after she reviewed Abadia’s motion for reconsideration, and ordered for the filing of a non-bailable charge against the police.
The Ombudsman sided with Abadia’s quoting of a Supreme Court ruling that “[i]t is [a] hornbook doctrine that no woman would concoct a story of defloration and subject herself to public humiliation if she has not been violated.”
“No woman would want to go through the humiliation of a rape trial unless she has actually been a victim and her motive is to seek and obtain justice,” the Ombudsman resolution read.