totaling about seventeen hours. Based on their talks, the former briefly related the latter's ordeal to the court a quo as follows: "Q: What can you say, that you found Marivic as a battered wife? Could you in layman's term describe to this Court what her life was like as said to you? A: What I remember happened then was it was more than ten years, that she was suffering emotional anguish. There were a lot of instances of abuses, to emotional abuse, to verbal abuse and to physical abuse. The husband had a very meager income, she was the one who was practically the bread earner of the family. The husband was involved in a lot of vices, going out with barkadas, drinking, even womanizing being involved in cockfight and going home very angry and which will trigger a lot of physical abuse. She also had the experience a lot of taunting from the husband for the reason that the husband even accused her of infidelity, the husband was saying that the child she was carrying was not his own. So she was very angry, she was at the same time very depressed because she was also aware, almost like living in purgatory or even hell when it was happening day in and day out." 39 In cross-examining Dra. Dayan, the public prosecutor not merely elicited, but wittingly or unwittingly put forward, additional supporting evidence as shown below: "Q In your first encounter with the appellant in this case in 1999, where you talked to her about three hours, what was the most relevant information did you gather? A The most relevant information was the tragedy that happened. The most important information were escalating abuses that she had experienced during her marital life. Q Before you met her in 1999 for three hours, we presume that you already knew of the facts of the case or at least you have substantial knowledge of the facts of the case? A I believe I had an idea of the case, but I do not know whether I can consider them as substantial. xxx xxx xxx Q Did you gather an information from Marivic that on the side of her husband they were fond of battering their wives? A I also heard that from her? Q You heard that from her? A Yes, sir. Q Did you ask for a complete example who are the relatives of her husband that were fond of battering their wives? A What I remember that there were brothers of her husband who are also battering their wives. Q Did she not inform you that there was an instance that she stayed in a hotel in Ormoc where her husband followed her and battered [her] several times in that room?