The Philippine Star
ILOILO CITY – A 25-year-old woman, who earlier accused an assistant parish priest in Iloilo of rape, has filed charges of kidnapping and obstruction of justice against a nun and three other priests.
In a three-page affidavit, the woman alleged that Sister Serafica Tolentino and Fathers Robert Amalay, Neil Antenor Cruz and Ramon Masculino detained her in a religious school for five days and coerced her not to file rape charges against Fr. Martin Alarcon.
Talk of the alleged kidnapping cropped up last week when the woman filed two counts of rape against Alarcon, assistant parish priest in Carles town.
The complainant alleged that on Feb. 15, the nun and three priests brought her to the Assumption Convent on Gen. Luna street here to keep her away from the media.
At first, she said she was convinced that the group only wanted to help her. However, she said she later sensed that their motive was "to stop me from filing a case" against Alarcon and that they were forcing her to take medicines "so it will appear that I am insane."
Tolentino, the woman alleged, "saw to it that whenever she (was) not around at least somebody (would) look after me and I was not allowed to go out of the room without her or any companion."
Although Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo was not included in the complaint, the woman alleged that he tried to stop her from filing the rape complaint against Alarcon.
"He (asked) me to give them time to resolve the incident within the confines of the church and not to file the case," she said in her affidavit. (Snip, article here)
This is not the meadieval age anymore where priest or nuns can just hide what their fellow religious had done...
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