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778 Phil. 207
THIRD DIVISION
[ G.R. No. 196784, January 13, 2016 ]
PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, PLANTIFF-APPELLEE, VS. MA. FE
TORRES SOLINA A.K.A. MA. FE BAYLON GALLO, ACCUSEDAPPELLANT.
DECISION
PERALTA, J.:
Accused-appellant Ma. Fe Torres Solina a.k.a. Ma. Fe Bay Ion Gallo appeals her case to
this Court after the Court of Appeals (CA) in its Decision[1] dated March 11, 2010
affirmed with modification her conviction beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of
illegal recruitment in large scale under Republic Act No. 8042, otherwise known as the
Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 (R.A. 8042) imposing the penalty
of life imprisonment and ordered to pay a. fine in the amount of =P200,000.00 with
subsidiary liability in case of insolvency and six (6) counts of Estafa under Article 315
(2) (a) of the Revised Penal Code (RPC), imposing the indeterminate penalty of one (1)
year, eight (8) months and twenty (20) days prision correccional, as minimum, to five
(5) years, five (5) months and eleven (11) days of prision mayor, as maximum, for
each count and ordered to return to each complainant the amount of P20,000.00 as
actual damages, handed clown by the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 147, in Makati
City.
Accused-appellant was arraigned and tried under an Information dated June 16, 2006
charging her of the crime of illegal recruitment in large scale under R.A. 8042, thus:
That in or about and sometime during the period from September, 2005 up
to February 2006, in the City of Makati, Philippines, a place within the
jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, representing
herself to have capacity to contract, enlist, transport and refer workers for
employment abroad, did then and there, without any license or authority,
recruit for overseas employment and for a fee, the following complainants,
to wit:
MONICA B. HIMAN
ERWIN B. DELA VEGA
GLADYS Z. REMORENTO
JOEY P. BACOLOD
MARLON B. DELA CRUZ
AUGUSTO A. CEZAR GARCES
LEYNARD B. TUTANES
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