{"id":243517,"date":"2020-01-30T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=243517"},"modified":"2020-01-30T01:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:39:07","slug":"nueva-ecija-court-convicts-veloso-recruiters-in-separate-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/30\/nueva-ecija-court-convicts-veloso-recruiters-in-separate-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Nueva Ecija court convicts Veloso recruiters in separate case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144043\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mary-Jane-Veloso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-144043 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mary-Jane-Veloso.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mary-Jane-Veloso.jpg 728w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mary-Jane-Veloso-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veloso&#8217;s supporters are hoping that the findings that she had been victimized by the two human traffickers to act as a drug mule would merit leniency from the Indonesian government. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SaveMJVeloso\/photos\/a.697588570363156.1073741825.697585010363512\/697588577029822\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SaveMJVeloso\/\">Save the Life of Mary Jane Veloso\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; A Nueva Ecija court has sentenced the recruiters of overseas Filipino worker (OFW), Mary Jane Veloso, to life imprisonment over separate large-scale illegal recruitment raps filed by three other complainants.<\/p>\n<p>In her 28-page decision dated January 14, Nueva Ecija Regional Trial Court Branch 88 Judge Anarica Castillo-Reyes also ordered Maria Cristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao to pay PHP2-million fine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prosecution&#8230; sufficiently mustered evidence to secure a guilty verdict,&#8221; Castillo-Reyes said in her ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The court upheld the charges despite an affidavit of desistance by one of the three complainants, Ana Marie Gonzales, who said she is hard-pressed financially and could not attend court hearings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, said private complainant (Gonzales) still affirmed her positive assertions that both accused proposed overseas employment to her,&#8221; the court said.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio and Lacanilao are facing separate charges after they were positively identified as having recruited Veloso who is currently detained and included in Indonesia&#8217;s death row for smuggling heroin into the country in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Veloso&#8217;s supporters are hoping that the findings that she had been victimized by the two human traffickers to act as a drug mule would merit leniency from the Indonesian government.<\/p>\n<p>Veloso&#8217;s execution by firing squad was halted in 2015 after authorities in Manila informed their counterparts in Jakarta that her recruiters had surrendered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; A Nueva Ecija court has sentenced the recruiters of overseas Filipino worker (OFW), Mary Jane Veloso, to life imprisonment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":144043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243517","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=243517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243518,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243517\/revisions\/243518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}