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Palparan was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison by a different Malolos court for the kidnapping and serious illegal detention of students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño, who remain missing to this day. In the motion for reconsideration filed Monday, Manalo pointed out that his testimony has already been found solid in the Cadapan and Empeño case not just by a trial court“The Prosecution respectfully seeks the Honorable Court’s painstaking reconsideration of the evidence that were disregarded, taken out of context, misread, or found to be inferior against the self-serving claims of a two-star general who had been convicted, on the basis of the same testimonies from the same eyewitnesses,...
Manalo recalled that his abductors forced him to say he was an armed rebel, part of the intense anti-insurgency campaign of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo presidency. He, Cadapan, and Empeño were abducted in 2006. The two women have not yet been found.