Apparently marrying his 16-year-old girlfriend doesn't spare him from facing legal charges. Read this on yahoo...
After marrying a teenager in Muslim rites recently, the charge against multi-awarded singer Freddie Aguilar before the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office has been amended from qualified seduction to violation of the child abuse law.
In the joint complaint affidavit, complainants Atty. Fernando Perito, Peter Sesereno and Cristine Joy Bangalisan also filed charges of corruption of minors against the parents of the 16-year old lass.
Aguilar failed to appear in Monday’s hearing to answer the charges but Assistant City Prosecutor Edgardo Saplala gave the respondent another chance on Dec. 9 to respond to the complaint.
The lawyer who represented the complainants said marrying the child in Muslim ceremonies does not automatically absolve Aguilar from the charges.
Perito, Serreno and Bangalisan said in their seven-page complaint said that an old man should behave responsibly in the society and should obey the laws on children and women and not disregard them even if he is a popular personality.
The complaint added that Aguilar publicly announced that there is no law barring an old man from marrying a child, followed by a public display of affection captured in photographs that circulated in Facebook.
Identified in the complaint as John and Jane Does, the parents were liable to violation of article 340 of the corruption of minors after they willingly had their child “gored by a predator with open hearts and minds’’.
Perito said that the legal action was filed not to personally castigate Aguilar but to discourage old men from bragging and flaunting very young girls in their aging years.
The complaint also disclosed that Aguilar allegedly sent text messages threatening Perito with harm if he insisted on going on with the case.
Based on Perito’s account, Aguilar met the girl in one of his trips to Mindoro.
The teenager was allegedly a fan and Aguilar looked for her when he returned to Mindoro eventually bringing her to his residence.
Perito noted that the innocent girl who came from a poor family was so excited as she and other minor friends stayed in Aguilar’s place but was left behind later by her companions after one week.
The original qualified seduction case that Perito filed under Article 337 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC) maintained that he has the obligation and duty to do what is right and prevent what is wrong as a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP).
In his two-page complaint-affidavit, Perito said he was outraged, offended, scandalized by the daring and shameful sexual exhibitions of “this sex hungry child predator by the name of Freddie Aguilar who bragged publicly that he is in love with a 16-year old innocent girl.”
He added that the innocent girl must have looked at the respondent as being a good popular singer yet, “this (Aguilar) cradle snatcher wants to take advantage on the adulation of the child by pretending to be loving her and allegedly marrying her later, this old man deserves to be castrated to spare the children.”
Perito also claimed that the admission and the public display of respondent’s demonstration of love and affection had violated morals and ethics on separating the adult from a child and from the pry and the predator.
Perito noted in his complaint that “If the parents consented, they should be held criminally liable.”
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