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People of the Philippines Vs. Lourdes V Alenciano Y Dacuba

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus LOURDES VALENCIANO y DACUBA, Accused-Appeellant.

G.R. No. 180926 | 2008-12-10

D E C I S I O N


VELASCO, JR., J.:

This is an appeal from the Decision[1] dated July 24, 2007 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR-H.C. No. 01390 which upheld the Decision[2] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 116 in Pasay City in Criminal Case No. 97-9851. The RTC convicted Lourdes Valenciano of the crime of Illegal Recruitment in Large Scale.

The Facts

In May 1996, Lourdes Valenciano, claiming to be an employee of Middle East International Manpower Resources, Inc., went with one Susie Caraeg to the house of Agapito De Luna, and told him he could apply for a job in Taiwan. A week later, De Luna went to Valenciano's house,...