Court ruling ‘added pain’ to drug mule—CBCP arm

BALANGA City, Bataan: The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines- Ecumenical Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People (CBCP-ECMI) on Tuesday described a recent decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) on the Mary Jane Veloso case painful and agonizing for the convicted Filipino drug mule.

The CA prevented a Regional Trial Court judge from Nueva Ecija from getting Veloso’s deposition at her jail cell in Indonesia against her alleged recruiters Cristina Sergio and Julius Lacanilao, who had also allegedly trafficked her.