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Angeles vs. Gaite 605 SCRA 408

JUDGE ADORACION G. ANGELES, Petitioner, versus HON. MANUEL B. GAITE, Acting Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs; HON. WALDO Q. FLORES, Senior Deputy Executive Secretary, Office of the President; Former DOJ SECRETARY HERNANDO B. PEREZ (now substituted by the Incumbent DOJ Secretary RAUL GONZALES); Former PROV. PROS. AMANDO C. VICENTE (now substituted by the Incumbent PROV. PROS. ALFREDO L. GERONIMO); PROS. BENJAMIN R. CARAIG, Malolos, Bulacan; and MICHAEL T. VISTAN, Respondents

G.R. No. 165276 | 2009-11-25

D E C I S I O N 
 
PERALTA, J.: 
 
Before this Court is a Petition for Review,[1] under Rule 43 of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure, assailing the February 13, 2004 Decision[2] and September 16, 2004 Resolution[3] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. SP No. 76019. 
 
The facts of the case, as alleged by petitioner and likewise adopted by the CA, are as follows: 
 
Petitioner [Judge Adoracion G. Angeles] was the foster mother of her fourteen (14) year-old grandniece Maria Mercedes Vistan who, in April 1990 was entrusted to the care of the former by the girl's grandmother and petitioner's sister...