ANGELES CITY—“Justice
delayed is justice denied.” So goes the legal maxim as the wheels of
justice most often grind exceedingly slow.
But not at the
Regional Trial Court (RTC) 59 here which recently made history for being
able to render a decision on a human-trafficking case, a conviction,
nine months after it was filed.
RTC 59 Presiding Judge
Maria Angelica Paras-Quiambao found the two accused, identified as
Esmeraldo “Jay” Amurao and Marlyn “Lyn” Valencia, guilty of peddling
five minors and a woman to local and foreign customers.
The two felons were
arrested on February 25,2013, in front of Nathalia Hotel along Fields
Avenue in Barangay Balibago here. They were convicted on November 8,
2013, with the sentence promulgated on November 15, 2013, with five
counts of human trafficking on violation of RA 9208 and child abuse or
violation of RA 7610.
They were sentenced to life imprisonment.
“Typical human
trafficking cases in the Philippines take four years before being
decided. I expedited the process because the international standard is
less than a year,” Quiambao said.
Prior to this, RTC 59 convicted a woman last September for pushing her 16-year-old niece into prostitution.
source: Business Mirror
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