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Office of the Court Administrator Vs. Officer-in-charge and Legal Researcher Nilda Cinco, RTC, Br. 28, Catbalogan, Samar

OFFICE OF THE COURT ADMINISTRATOR, Complainant, versus OFFICER-IN-CHARGE AND LEGAL RESEARCHER NILDA CINCO, REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, BRANCH 28, CATBALOGAN, SAMAR, Respondent.

A.M. No. P-06-2219 [Formerly A.M. No. 06-7-392-RTC] | 2009-07-13

D E C I S I O N


CARPIO MORALES, J.:

By letter of December 11, 2004,[1] Nilda C. Cinco (respondent), Legal Researcher and Officer-in-Charge of Branch 28, Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Catbalogan, Samar, reported to Presiding Judge Sibanah E. Usman that there were five[2] missing records of cases in their Branch and that she suspected the one in charge of Criminal Cases, Lilia C. Raga,[3] to be behind the loss, hence, she recommended that an investigation be conducted.[4]

The pertinent portions of respondent's letter-report to Judge Usman read, quoted verbatim:

x x x x

I discovered that three of the above-named records were missing on...