Justice Secretary Leila de Lima appealed to prosecutors to be decent and have integrity in their lives after the controversial sex video was exposed involving a prosecutor and his lawyer girlfriend.

De Lima asked the prosecutors not to engage in immorality in order to be a good example in the society.

“The central issue is the merit and fitness of a person to function as a public prosecutor. That means living up to the highest standards of integrity. The sex video is a collateral issue that demonstrates the emergence of the use and abuse of technology,” de Lima said.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) chief also pointed out that there are cases now triggered by the aftermath of the sex video.

It was learned that that the prosecutor was a former lawyer of the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) who had an affair with a fellow PAO lawyer, until his promotion with the DOJ.

 “I was told that there are now pending cases prescinding from the sex video—complaints for grave coercion, grave threats and violation of R.A .9262 vs. the prosecutor and PAO lawyer concerned, and a complaint for voyeurism vs the wife. The QC [Quezon City] prosecutors’ office inhibited from said cases which were forwarded to DOJ main office. I understand that disbarment has also been filed. Let’s just wait pls for the outcome of those case. I was also told that the alleged sex video was taken when the pros. concerned was still with PAO, or before he was appointed as prosecutor,” she added.

In the meantime, the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office has already sent to the department the charges for infidelity against a prosecutor.

The case filed by the wife of the male fiscal now falls with the jurisdiction of the DOJ, according to the Prosecutor General Claro Arellano.

He said the prosecutor’s office voluntarily inhibited from handling the cases as one of the accused is working with them.

 Arellano vowed that there will be no white wash in the investigation against the prosecutor.
 Charges for grave slander, grave threats, and grave coercion have already been filed against the prosecutor by his wife, reportedly a physician.

 She also filed a complaint for violations of R.A. 9262 (Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004) against the male prosecutor for psychological and emotional anguish they reportedly went through because of his unfaithfulness.

The prosecutor in turn filed against his wife a complaint for violations of R.A .9995 (Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act of 2009).

 The female partner who was featured in a alleged sex video was reportedly a daughter of a member of the judiciary.

 It was revealed that the state prosecutor who became part of the DOJ family last October figured in a sex video in 2011 with his female partner who is now in Canada.