Van driver denies witnessing rape by US servicemen
First posted 04:13pm (Mla time) Dec 09, 2005
By Tonette Orejas, Inquirer
INQ7.NET Breaking News
OLONGAPO CITY -- In a statement submitted to the prosecutor's office here on Friday, Timoteo Soriano Jr., the driver of the American soldiers accused of raping a Filipina at the Subic Bay Freeport on November 1, denied witnessing a rape or gang rape inside his van.
Soriano, who was absent in the third hearing in the case's preliminary investigation on Friday, also said he was coerced by Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority investigator Paquito Torres to claim that he witnessed a gang rape involving the Americans and the Filipina.
Raul Paras, Soriano's counsel, said his client was neither a witness nor an accomplice in the case.
But City Prosecutor Prudencio Jalandoni insisted he had already declared Soriano as an accomplice because of signs of "some complicity" in the alleged rape. Inquirer Central Luzon Desk
By Tonette Orejas, Inquirer
INQ7.NET Breaking News
OLONGAPO CITY -- In a statement submitted to the prosecutor's office here on Friday, Timoteo Soriano Jr., the driver of the American soldiers accused of raping a Filipina at the Subic Bay Freeport on November 1, denied witnessing a rape or gang rape inside his van.
Soriano, who was absent in the third hearing in the case's preliminary investigation on Friday, also said he was coerced by Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority investigator Paquito Torres to claim that he witnessed a gang rape involving the Americans and the Filipina.
Raul Paras, Soriano's counsel, said his client was neither a witness nor an accomplice in the case.
But City Prosecutor Prudencio Jalandoni insisted he had already declared Soriano as an accomplice because of signs of "some complicity" in the alleged rape. Inquirer Central Luzon Desk
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