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LUALHATI M. LIWANAG, complainant, vs. JUDGE PATERNO H. LUSTRE, Presiding Judge, Municipal Trial Court, Calamba, Laguna, respondent.

LUALHATI M. LIWANAG, complainant, vs. JUDGE PATERNO H. LUSTRE, Presiding Judge, Municipal Trial Court, Calamba, Laguna, respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ 98-1168 | 1999-04-21

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

On September 19, 1995, complainant Lualhati M. Liwanag sent a letter to the Court[1] praying that respondent Judge Paterno H. Lustre be dismissed from the service due to "gross immorality and grave misconduct unbecoming of his profession."[2] Attached to her letter was a sworn statement, reproduced verbatim hereunder, which details how respondent allegedly molested her sexually.

SWORN STATEMENT

I, LUWALHATI LIWANAG, of legal age, Filipino and a resident of Karunungan Road, Pamana Homes, Calamba, Laguna, after being duly sworn, according to law, hereby depose and state:

1. Prior to July, 1994, my...