By Manny
Galvez
CABANATUAN CITY – A
lay minister of a Catholic Church was charged before the provincial
prosecutor’s office here for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old girl afternoon of Feb. 20 in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija.
Charged for acts of
lasciviousness in relation to Violence Against Women and Children Act was
Efren Meña, 55, of Barangay San Fernando Sur, Cabiao town.
Meña is a lay minister
of the Saint John Nepomucene Parish Church in Cabiao, according to Chief
Inspector Eric de Venancio, town police
chief.
In her complaint, the
girl’s mother said the crime happened inside the house of a neighbor at about 1
p.m. that Thursday.
The victim told case
investigator SPO 1 Orlando Francisco that Meña kissed her on the lips and
touched her breast.
The girl immediately
told the incident to her mother who accompanied her to the police and the
office of municipal social welfare and development.
Francisco said Meña
allegedly owned up to the crime.
A bail of P200,000 was
recommended for the suspect’s provisional liberty.
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