By the Bohol Chronicle
The accuser-turned accused of the celebrated rape and murder of a teenage girl in Bolod, Panglao is formally charged with the crime that happened more than four years ago.
An Information for Rape with Homicide was filed Friday by the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor at the Regional Trial Court against Alex Dasco, the self-confessed witness to the gruesome killing of Vivian Dumaluan.
Dasco, whose whereabouts remain unknown months after he surfaced to disclose his knowledge of the crime, was declared by a panel of three prosecutors as a "coached and paid" witness who should be made to answer for his participation in the rape-slay case excluding those whom he accused as the real perpetrators.
The Information on Criminal Case No. 13972 was signed by Provincial Prosecutors Ponciano Uy, Margie Tan Alvaro, Tito Apura and Macario Delusa.
Based on his own testimony, Dasco said he was the one who held the hands of Vivian while she was repeatedly raped sometime in April 2004.
He identified former Panglao mayor Dr. Doloreich Dumaluan as the one who ordered the rape and slaying of Vivian. The former mayor's brother Teofredo (the victim's employer), Romeo Lapinig and Narciso Maghamil were also charged with the former mayor.
The complaint was dismissed but the prosecutors instead found probable cause against Dasco.
Maghamil is detained at the Bohol Detention and Rehabilitation Center after he was originally charged in court for the same crime.
The prosecutors said that Dasco conspired with Maghamil to rape Vivian, only 18 years old at that time, and later inflicting serious physical injuries that caused her death.
The respondents were assisted by lawyers Ruben Jay Medina, Esther Gertrude Biliran, Aleck Francis Lim and Roland Inting.
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