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PEOPLE vs. LOURDES GAMBOA alias Des or Lourdes Gamboa y Golfe, BONIFACIO MI?OZA (at large), MELBA MI?OZA alias Melba, Eva Mi?oza (at large) and GLORIA SARMIENTO (at large), accused. LOURDES GAMBOA alias Des or Lourdes Gamboa y Golfe, .

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LOURDES GAMBOA alias Des or Lourdes Gamboa y Golfe, BONIFACIO MI?OZA (at large), MELBA MI?OZA alias Melba, Eva Mi?oza (at large) and GLORIA SARMIENTO (at large), accused. LOURDES GAMBOA alias Des or Lourdes Gamboa y Golfe, accused-appellant.

G.R. No. 135382 | 2000-09-29

D E C I S I O N
BELLOSILLO, J.:
This is an appeal from the Partial Decision of the Regional Trial Court finding accused LOURDES GAMBOA alias Des or Lourdes Gamboa y Golfe guilty of Illegal Recruitment in Large Scale under RA 8042, otherwise known as The Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995, and imposing upon her life imprisonment and a fine of P500,000.00.[1]
From March 1996 to August 1997 the four (4) accused led by Bonifacio Miñoza and Melba Miñoza promised overseas employment for a fee to complaining witnesses Marissa Balina, Anna Marie Pili, Romulo Macaraeg, Ernesto Magadan, Domingo Magadan, Jr., Roger...