PHILIPPINES
Rappler
BY ARIES C. RUFO
POSTED ON 06/18/2013
MANILA, Philippines – Conducting their rounds on November 17, 2012, patrolling police and barangay officials in Barangay Pamplona Dos in Las Piñas City observed a Hyundai car moving at a snail’s pace along Libra Street.
It was around 10:30 pm, and the patrolling group, which had grown suspicious, decided to follow the Hyundai, which stopped at a dimly lighted corner of the street.
When they peered into the vehicle, they saw the driver in tight embrace with another occupant – a woman. The driver immediately went out of the vehicle to confront the patrolling officers.
Introducing himself as Fr. Gerald “Gerry” Mascariña, the priest brusquely told the patrolling officers that he was just helping the woman with her studies. Unimpressed with the cleric’s explanation and offended by his rude attitude, the patrolling officers invited Mascariña and his companion to the barangay hall.
At the barangay hall, Mascariña – the parish priest of San Roque de Alabang Parish in the neighboring city of Muntinlupa – was in a hurry to leave the place and his female companion.
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