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PEOPLE vs. Anita Melgar Mercader y Tongco

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee vs. ANITA MELGAR MERCADER Y TONGCO, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 118815 | 1997-08-18

D E C I S I O N


BELLOSILLO, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision of the RTC Br. 219, Quezon City, in Crim. Case No. 94-56815, convicting accused-appellant Anita Melgar-Mercader y Tongco of Illegal Recruitment in Large Scale under pertinent provisions of the Labor Code, and sentencing her to life imprisonment. 1

The Information charged that between January 1993 to April 1994 the accused Anita Melgar-Mercader y Tongco, for a fee but without any authority of law, feloniously recruited and promised employment and/or job placement abroad to (a) Florida Mendoza-Rampas, (b) Lilia Manlolo-Macaraeg, (c) Samuel Domingo, (d) Fernando Alijano,...