The Pedo's Cartographic Sketch who raped a 6 yr. old girl

[cliff_drew]

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^ Loopholes are slowly coming out. For those who keeps an eye on this case will be disgusted on how this turns out. I wonder how CIDG feels now with their so-called evidences.

[canadianincebu]

I have just moved to Minglanilla last week and have heard rumours of the evidence and police involvement being questionable. Thoughts and prayers to the family on getting the closure they need and the authorities catching the criminal. The right criminal.

It's hard being a foreigner and seeing distrust and getting looks when you walk down the street. Hopefully the community will not be quick to paint all white visitors with the same brush. I also noticed that kids are all walking and travelling in groups together for safety, which is good. With the area being on high alert hopefully another tragedy will be prevented.

[cliff_drew]

@canadianincebu,

The questionable evidences were already broke out in court. Is this another slap on our authorities?

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Police misled court in child slay case: judge

Saturday, April 2, 2011

CEBU CITY -- Inconsistencies in the testimonies of policemen in the Ellah Joy Pique case caught the attention of a judge, who heard Thursday the motion to quash the warrant the police used in their search for proof.

Judge Meinrado Paredes said he was made to believe all along that the navy blue Mitsubishi Pajero the police seized from Bella Ruby Santos had LHJ-382 for its plate number.

The police had seized it on suspicion that it was the vehicle used to dump Ellah Joy Pique’s body from a cliff in Sayaw Beach, Barili last February 8.

“Why did you mislead the court?” Paredes, presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court Branch 13, asked police officer Willard Selibio during the hearing.

The police officer said the accused might have tampered with the plate number.

“If you were the owner of the vehicle and you are the suspect, would you alter the plate number to incriminate yourself?” asked Paredes.

Selibio fell silent. Later, he admitted that the plate number of Santos’s Pajero is LMJ-382, based on its certificate of registration and a certification from the Land Transportation Office.

Selibio was the first witness presented for the motion to quash, filed by Santos’s lawyers.

In a separate interview, Senior Superintendent Patrocinio Comendador said that Task Force Ellah Joy is confident its witnesses are telling the truth.

The task force filed last Thursday morning the kidnapping with homicide case against Bella Ruby Santos and her British boyfriend, Ian Charles Griffiths.

Wearing a black sleeveless dress, a white coat and high-heeled boots, Santos arrived in the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 13 courtroom at 10 a.m. Friday with lawyers Rameses Villagonzalo and Ana Luz Cristal.

Around 50 of Santos’s neighbors and supporters, who boarded a bus rented from Barangay Tabunok in Talisay City, also went to court to show their support. Santos appeared relaxed in the hearing. She no longer wore sunglasses, unlike her first public appearance last March 15.

Selibio, a member of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas, took the witness stand first. Judge Paredes asked him why the police made the court believe that the plate number of the Pajero seized from Santos was LHJ-382, instead of LMJ-382.

Selibio explained that when they looked at the vehicle from inside the house, the letter “M” appeared to be an “H.” He also confirmed the plate number was tampered.

He pointed to the accused as the one who could have altered the letter M “to mislead the investigators.”

But Judge Paredes pointed out that if there was anybody who would likely benefit from the alleged tampering, that would be the complainants.

Chief Inspector Fermin Armendarez III, head of the CPPO Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, also testified about how the police met their witnesses and subsequently raided Santos’s residence.

Armendarez confirmed the plate number of the seized Pajero is LMJ-382, and not LHJ-382. Like Selibio, Almendarez said that “somebody might have tampered with” the car’s plate number. He could not say who might have done that.

He said a team from the Scene of the Crime Operations brought the Pajero from Santos’s house to Camp Sotero Cabahug in Cebu City after the raid.

A third witness, Ligaya Escultos, took the witness stand on Friday and testified she saw a body being dumped past midnight last February 8 in Barili.

Escultos said she saw a male foreigner standing at the back of a Pajero, in the place where the child’s body was found last February 9. Although she allegedly witnessed the dumping, Escultos, however, said she did not report to the police “because I was scared.”

In a press conference after the hearing, lawyer Villagonzalo said the witnesses’ testimonies were “fabricated”.

“You noticed that all their lies started to be exposed during the hearing (of the motion to quash),” said Villagonzalo.

Santos said she is relieved the truth “has started to come out.”

She said she felt sorry for the Pique family and is praying that “the real culprits” will soon be arrested.

But Senior Superintendent Comendador, in an interview, said their witnesses’ honesty “is the strength of our investigation.”

Comendador has described Santos’s house in Barangay Inayagan, Naga as a center of “cybersex operations.”

He said the task force has a copy of a contract, which showed Santos registered for an online chat service commonly used by cybersex chat hosts.

One of the witnesses was a neighbor of Santos. He said he used to wash the Pajero, which is registered in Santos’s name.

The neighbor, according to Comendador, said that “huge amounts of money” were paid to some young women employed by Santos to chat and, using webcams, show their private parts to clients online.

Since 2007, he said, Santos’s cybersex business has “flourished”.

Another witness, an eight-year-old girl told the police that about an hour before Ellah Joy was abducted, she and a friend were invited by Santos and Griffiths to board the Pajero.

Santos allegedly asked her how to get to a school in Barangay Colon. After she gave the directions, Santos told her to go with them. But the girl ran away.

Comendador said the task force, which will not be dissolved until the case is decided, may file additional charges of child pornography and qualified trafficking against the couple, as soon as they recover from the court the items they seized from Santos’s house last March 4.

Police misled court in child slay case: judge | Sun.Star

[Soul Doctor]

Do I smell something fishy?

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Judge nasuko

Ni Joseph Elvir C. Tubilan

Friday, April 1, 2011

WA magkadimao ang mga pamahayag mga sakop sa Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 7 ug sa ilang testigo dihang gihusay kagahapon sa korte ang motion to quash nga gisang-at sa giingong bag-ong suspek sa pagdagit ug pagpatay kang Ellah Joy Pique niadtong Pebrero.

Niini, wa mahimuot si Regional Trial Court (RTC) Executive Judge Meinrado Paredes dihang gipatuo ang korte sa pipila ka mga impormasyon hinungdan nga giisyu niya ang search warrant aron maronda ang balay ni Ruby Bella Santos apan di diay kini ang matuod.

Si Paredes namahayag nga dihang ni-apply sa search warrant ang CIDG nagtumbok sila sa sakyanang may plate number LHJ 382 apan ilang nasakmit sa Inayagan, Naga City ang plate number LMJ 382.

Matod ni P/Chief Insp. Fermin Armendarez sa CIDG nga dihang ilang gisusi ang LHJ 382, wa kiniy record sa Land Transportation Office (LTO) samtang ang LMJ 382 narehistro kang Santos.

Nipasabot si SPO2 Willard Selibio nga kon tan-awon sa layo ang plate number sa sakyanan, mao ra kinig LHJ apan LMJ kon padul-an. Gani, nagduda silang gi-tamper kini.

Apan, dihang gipangutana ang taga CIDG sa korte kon si kinsa man ang mabulahan kon i-tamper ang plate number, wa silay gitubag.

Nasuta usab sa korte nga wa usab magtakdo ang gipresentar sa CIDG nga ang bedsheet nga giputos kang Ellah Joy ang kolor niini puti samtang anaa sa report sa Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) yellow.

Nahisgutan usab ang petsa diin nagkita ang mga pulis sa CIDG sa ilang duha ka mga testigo niadtong Pebrero 9 didto sa Dumanjug apan giusab ni Armendarez ang iyang pamahayag nga sa Pebrero 11 diay sila nagkita.

Samtang, gikwestyon usab ni Atty. Ana Luz Cristal, abogado ni Santos, si Armendarez kon giunsa nila sa pagkuha sa ngalang Chloe Santos o Bella Herediano nga Obing man ang nailhan sa iyang mga silingan sa Inayagan.

Si Paredes sa pagsugod pa lang sa husay wa na mahimuot dihang may dokumento nga nalakip sa gibutang sa case folder sa kaso gikan sa CIDG nga way pirma gikan kang Armendarez. Ang abogado sa CIDG wa masayod nganong nadugang ang naasoyng mga dokumento sa mga dokumento nga gisumiter sa korte.

Subay niini, gikahimuot ni Santos ang kalambuan nga gitumbok niyang nihinayhinay sa paggawas ang kamatuoran apan bisan niini di na mabawi ang danyos ug kauwaw nga iyang nahiaguman.

Judge nasuko | Sun.Star

ang gikwestion ang kolor.
pero ang design og borda pareho.

normal man na nga ang bedsheet duha ka color.
adtog hotel, dili ba duha ang color sa bedsheet?

ang puti sa ilawom. ang colored sa ibabaw.

pero pilay chance nga and geometric design sa borda pareho sa anaa gipuitos kang ella joy nga lawas?

maghuwat na lang sa forensics report.

[cliff_drew]

ang gikwestion ang kolor.
pero ang design og borda pareho.

normal man na nga ang bedsheet duha ka color.
adtog hotel, dili ba duha ang color sa bedsheet?

ang puti sa ilawom. ang colored sa ibabaw.

pero pilay chance nga and geometric design sa borda pareho sa anaa kang ella joy nga lawas?

maghuwat na lang sa forensics report.

Ang point dok is kung nasayup na sila daan sa car's plate kay it was allegedly tampered to point Santos/Griffiths as the cuplrits, how much more sa bedsheet and other confiscated evidences?

[vahnhelsing]

naunsa pildihonon nasad... justice delayed is justice denied...

[cliff_drew]

Slay suspect’s lawyers threaten to sue police

Monday, April 4, 2011

CEBU CITY -- Withdraw the complaint or face charges.

The lawyers of Bella Ruby Santos made that challenge to police officers who filed the kidnapping with homicide case against Santos and her British boyfriend, Ian Charles Griffiths.

The two were named respondents last week in the abduction and killing of six-year-old Ellah Joy Pique in Calajoan, Minglanilla last February 8.

“If they will not withdraw (their complaint), we will file criminal and administrative cases against the police, including witnesses. We will not spare any of them. Hindi tama ang ginawa nila (What they did was wrong),” lawyer Ana Luz Cristal said.

Cristal said the complainants had better withdraw their case against the couple or “suffer another dismissal.”

Hearing

The police previously filed a complaint against another couple, Karen Esdrelon and Sven Erik Berger, a Norwegian, but withdrew after proof—including hotel security photos—turned up in support of their alibi.

The Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO), using circumstantial evidence in the testimonies of 10 people, filed kidnapping with homicide charges against Santos and Griffiths last March 31.

In their complaint, the police said the people whose testimonies they gathered saw the couple “before, during and after” the abduction of Pique last February 8.

The police said they also got testimonies from people who saw Griffiths park a navy blue Pajero on the side of the highway near Sayaw Beach in Barili town. The child’s body was found at the foot of a cliff in Sayaw on February 9.

Judge Meinrado Paredes will continue to hear today a motion that Santos filed to quash the warrant the police used when they searched her house last March 4.

If that motion is granted, the seized items will no longer be used as evidence in the case, said another defense lawyer, Rameses Villagonzalo.

Witness

Meanwhile, another witness said that had the police listened to him, the former suspects, Berger and Esdrelon, would not have been arrested and charged.

The witness, who claimed to be a habal-habal (motorcycle-for-hire) driver, said in his sworn statement that on the night of February 12, personnel from the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) invited him to go with them to the Mactan airport.

Around this time, Berger and Esdrelon were being held at the Police Center for Aviation Security (PCAS) office in Central Visayas, after being kept from boarding their flight to Hong Kong.

The witness said he was instructed by the police to confirm if Berger and Esdrelon were the ones he saw in the afternoon of February 8.

Wrong duo

He “flatly” told the police they had the wrong suspects, the witness said.

Days later, he said he was sad when he heard the news the police filed a kidnapping with homicide case against the couple.

Former CPPO Director Erson Digal, in an earlier report, said the basis for their filing the complaint was the positive identification of the couple by three witnesses, all children.

These children are no longer among a new set of 12 witnesses.
Around 4 p.m. last February 8, the driver-witness said he was sitting at a corner near the barangay hall of Calajoan, Minglanilla, where he parked his motorcycle.

While waiting for passengers, he saw a slow-moving dark blue Pajero pass in front of him. The vehicle made a u-turn about 10 meters from where he was.

One meter

He said the vehicle slowed down upon reaching him, but continued to move slowly and passed by Calajoan Elementary School.

The witness said he “looked intently” at the persons inside the vehicle.
“I clearly saw the faces and physical descriptions of the driver and the passenger,” he said. “I was just a meter away from the windshield.”

On February 9, he learned from residents near the school about Ellah Joy’s abduction. That was the day the six-year-old pupil’s body was found at the foot of a cliff in Barili.

When he talked to the children who reportedly witnessed the incident, he learned that the persons in the Pajero took Ellah.

The witness later identified Santos and Griffiths as the ones inside the vehicle.

Slay suspect

[peewee_toot]

lisura sd ani nga case oi. louy ayo ang mga biktima...

[j0dz]

hay, basin nag mugna nasad na sila ug mga evidence para mahuman ang kaso.

[cliff_drew]

Defense files perjury charges against police

By Kevin A. Lagunda and Gerome M. Dalipe

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

WITNESSES in the Ellah Joy Pique case were allegedly harassed by persons hired by the camp of Bella Ruby Santos, said Senior Supt. Patrocinio Comendador.

Comendador, spokesperson of Task Force Ellah Joy, told reporters yesterday that they received reports that three persons were tasked to investigate witnesses from Minglanilla.

But these persons allegedly intimidated them, Comendador said.

The police have 12 witnesses, four of whom come from Minglanilla.

Comendador said the witnesses were afraid, but he already detailed police officers to each of them to secure them.

Private probers

The said “private investigators,” according to Comendador, identified themselves as members of the National Police Commission and Commission on Human Rights.

“Mananghid ta sila (They should have asked us for permission),” Co-mendador said.

“Karon pa ko kasugat nga naa nay investigation, nya naa pa gyoy laing investigation (This is new to me, to have two investigations on one case).”

He said the task force may file obstruction of justice against Santos and these persons, whom he said they already identified.

Comendador asked Santos to "leave the case to court.”

He said the witnesses are now "vulnerable" for their identities are already made public.

Protection

The task force has already applied for the witness protection program of the justice department, Comendador said.

Santos’s camp made good its threat to file charges against the police if they do not withdraw the kidnapping with homicide case against the Cebuana and her British boyfriend.

Through her lawyer Donnabel Tenorio, she filed perjury charges against two police officers and two prosecution witnesses in the Pique case at the Cebu Provincial Prosecutor’s Office.

Tenorio accused police officers Willaird Selibio and Angelito Yaun, as well as Richard Ian Bruce Bansuan and Ligaya Escultos, of lying under oath.

Blackmail

“It’s blackmail at the highest level,” Comendador said. “You cannot scare the police.”
The testimonies of Bansuan and Escultos were used by the police to convince the court earlier to issue a search warrant on Santos’s house in Inayagan, Naga.

Bansuan and Escultos said they saw Santos’s boyfriend Ian Charles Griffiths around midnight on Feb. 8 remove a package from the rear of a dark blue Pajero, with license plate LHJ382, and dump this off a cliff in Sayaw, Barili.

Bansuan and Escultos are also among the witnesses that the police are using in the kidnapping and homicide case it filed against Santos and Griffiths.

In her affidavit complaint, Santos admitted she owns the house and the Mitsubishi Pajero with the license plate LMJ382.

Dark

The police alleged earlier that the license plate of the Pajero was tampered to make the letter M look like the letter H.

Tenorio said the statements of Bansuan and Escultos are lies. He said the highway near Sayaw Beach in Barili is pitch-black because there are no streetlamps.

Bansuan and Escultos, in their joint affidavit, said they saw Griffiths’s face because the light inside the Pajero was turned on.

Tenorio attacked Ban-suan and Escultos’s testimony further by saying there was no fishing pond in Barangay Mantayupan, Barili, where the two witnesses said they had a party until 11:45 on Feb. 8, prior to seeing Griffiths in Sayaw.

“There is no resort by the name Fishing Pond in Barangay Mantayupan, Barili. The only resort in the barangay is AC Tilapia Fun Fishing,” said Tenorio.

Prove

Comendador said they did not commit perjury and Santos should prove her innocence in court.

He said the police would gain nothing if they made up the witnesses’ accounts and tampered the license plate of the dark blue Pajero, reportedly owned by Santos.

“Truthful persons cannot just wave off lies,” he said. “Kung too perfect ang imong gi-esturya, it’s too good to be true.”

“There may be inconsistencies, but they are not necessarily lies,” he added.

‘I didn’t abduct, kill Ellah Joy’ | Sun.Star