The Supreme Court Third Division has dismissed the cases for rape by sexual intercourse and acts of lasciviousness against TV host Vhong Navarro for lack of probable cause. | T2TupasINQ
“To suggest that a prosecutor turn a blind eye to such glaring and manifest inconsistencies — under the premise that the evaluation thereof would already touch on the complainant’s credibility to be solely assessed in a full-blown trial — would be to compel the prosecutor to satisfy himself or herself to mere allegations in a complaint, and abdicate his or her bounden duty to screen cases for trial, thus passing the buck to the trial courts,” the SC added.
In filing her complaint, Cornejo alleged that Navarro pinned her down and touched her private parts, but when he was about to rape her, her friends arrived at her condominium unit in Taguig City on January 22, 2014.
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