MANILA, Philippines ? World Pool champion Ronato ?Ronnie? Alcano was charged yesterday before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court with the alleged sexual abuse of his 14-year-old daughter.
The case was filed after Assistant City Prosecutor Corazon Romano found probable cause to charge Alcano with rape and violation of Section 5 of Republic Act 7610 or the Anti-Child Abuse Law.
Romano recommended a total bail of P400,000 for both charges.
Alcano has denied the allegations. His lawyer Vic Rodriguez said they would file a motion for reconsideration.
Citing the complainant?s account of the alleged rape, Romano, in her three-page resolution, said no woman in her right mind would admit to having been violated unless she was telling the truth.
She said the complainant ?would not concoct a tale repugnant to her virtue and undergo the rigors of public ridicule concerning her very honor.?
According to the government prosecutor, ?the facts narrated by the complainant are convincing and credible and it will be absurd for a daughter (to) accuse her own father of the heinous crime of rape had she not been molested.?
In the complaint filed in March, Alcano?s daughter alleged the first two incidents of sexual assault happened on Nov. 25, 2006 when she stayed in the house where her father lived with his partner Gwendolyn Mondia.
She alleged Alcano touched her private parts and made lewd gestures in front of her.
The third incident, the girl said, occurred in the first week of December 2006. Alcano allegedly put his hand on her private part while they were lying on the bed with Gwendolyn.
Alcano has denied the charges, saying the girl was only after his money. He filed a perjury case against his daughter and her mother. But Romano found the complainant?s account of the incidents more credible.
Rodriguez, who said the case would surely affect his client?s performance, said they had 15 days to file the motion for reconsideration in court.
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