P'sinan teacher guilty of rape

CALASIAO, Pangasinan – A public school teacher here has been sentenced to eight to 17 years in jail for raping a 14-year-old student in 2008.

In a 17-page decision, Judge Caridad Villegas-Galvez of RTC Branch 43 here also ordered Oliver Ico of the Calasiao Comprehensive National High School to indemnify the victim with P15,000 as moral damages.

The victim’s relatives said they were relieved justice was attained for their kin who was facing a bright future when this was clouded by what the victim’s teacher did.