{"id":23858,"date":"2014-08-27T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T05:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23858"},"modified":"2014-08-27T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T13:06:56","slug":"dennis-roldan-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/27\/dennis-roldan-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Roldan sentenced to life imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13851\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_92239273.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13851\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_92239273-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_92239273-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_92239273.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Pasig City Regional Trial Court (RTC) has sentenced Dennis Roldan\u2014Mitchell Yap Gumabao, in real life\u2014to life imprisonment for being the mastermind in the kidnapping of a 3-year-old Chinese-Filipino boy in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Former actor and ex-Congressman Roldan was convicted, after nine years of trial, by Judge Rolando Mislang of the Pasig City Trial Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKidnapping will continue to be a perfect crime if you do not fight back, if you continue to just pay ransom, and you do not file cases \u2026 Roldan is a powerful figure with connections \u2026 (but) we have proven the case not just beyond reasonable doubt, but beyond any doubt,\u201d Teresita Ang-See of Movement for Restoration of Peace and Order said in a report from the Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe significance of this case is that it shows our victims that it pays to fight back. It doesn&#8217;t pay if you keep quiet,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Rowena P. San Andres and Adrian C. Domingo were also found guilty of the kidnapping, which occurred at Ortigas Center on Feb. 9, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>All of them were ordered to jointly pay the victim P100,000 as civil indemnity, P100,000 as moral damages, and P100,000 as exemplary damages.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Roldan\u2019s girlfriend, Suzette Wang, who was rumored to have fled the country was ordered \u201carchived.\u201d\u00a0Wang was the one who allegedly introduced Roldan to the victim\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel, of course, not happy because the decision was (unfavorable) to us,\u201d Roldan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Pasig City Regional Trial Court (RTC) has sentenced Dennis Roldan\u2014Mitchell Yap Gumabao, in real life\u2014to life imprisonment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[7564,7565],"class_list":["post-23858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-dennis-roldan","tag-life-imprisonment","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}