A QUEZON City Prosecutor’s Office has found a probable cause to indict showbiz writer Jobert Sucaldito for libel for maligning a colleague.
Second Assistant City Prosecutor Rogelio Antero, Division IV chief, approved the recommendation of Assistant City Prosecutor Leizel Aquiatan-Morales to elevate the libel charges filed against Sucaldito and two others —Eileen Mangubat, Bandera publisher, and Ervin Santiago, editor—before the Quezon City court.
The case was raffled off to Branch 220.
The prosecutor’s office earlier recommended a P10,000 bail the provisional liberty of each respondent.
The suit stemmed from an article published at Bandera in February, during which Sucaldito said Lapus, or Jonathan Anthony Lapus in real life, had forced a man to have sexual relations with him inside the Grilly Bar near Rembrandt Hotel.
Lapus of 10-C St. Mary Street corner Benedict Street, Paradise Village, Project 8 said Sucaldito maligned him for writing Lapus was a shame to other homosexuals.
Ma. Luisa Madrazo, Lapus’ sister, in her sworn affidavit, said her brother well-respected in their neighborhood.
