THIRD DIVISION
[G.R. No. 250045. September 16, 2020.]
PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee,vs. DOROTHY LOLLY CANO y SENDON @ "DON", accused-appellant.
NOTICE
Sirs/Mesdames :
Please take notice that the Court, Third Division, issued a Resolution datedSeptember 16, 2020, which reads as follows:
"G.R. No. 250045 (People of the Philippines v. Dorothy Lolly Cano y Sendon @ "Don"). — This is an appeal from the November 27, 2018 Decision 1 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CR-HC No. 09980, which affirmed with modification the July 11, 2017 Judgment 2 of the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City, Branch 98 (RTC) finding Dorothy Lolly Cano y Sendon (appellant) guilty of Illegal Recruitment committed in Large Scale as defined under Section 6 (m) 3 of Republic Act (R.A.) No. 8042, otherwise known as the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 and sentencing her to suffer the penalty of life imprisonment and pay a fine of Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (P500,000.00). The CA reiterated the RTC's order for appellant to pay private complainants Alexander Lineses P145,000.00; Wilson Llaneta P40,700.00; and Jennifer Llaneta P82,000.00 as actual damages, but imposed legal interest of six percent (6%) per annum from the finality of its Decision until full satisfaction. HTcADC
After a perusal of the records, this Court resolves to DISMISS the appeal for failure of appellant to sufficiently show that the CA committed any reversible error in its assailed Decision as to warrant the exercise of the Court's appellate jurisdiction. The Court does not find any cogent reason to disrupt the findings of the CA.
WHEREFORE, the appeal is DISMISSED. The November 27, 2018 Decision of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CR-HC No. 09980, convicting Dorothy Lolly Cano y Sendon of Illegal Recruitment committed in Large Scale as defined under Section 6 (m) of R.A. No. 8042, otherwise known as the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 is AFFIRMED.
SO ORDERED."
By authority of the Court:
MISAEL DOMINGO C. BATTUNG IIIDivision Clerk of Court
By:
(SGD.) RUMAR D. PASIONDeputy Division Clerk of Court
Footnotes
1.Rollo, pp. 3-20; penned by Associate Justice Edwin D. Sorongon with Associate Justices Sesinando E. Villon and Rafael Antonio M. Santos, concurring.
2. CA rollo, pp. 46-55; penned by Presiding Judge Marilou D. Runes-Tamang, MNSA; Docketed as Criminal Case No. Q-08-151383.
3. Sec. 6. DEFINITIONS. — For purposes of this Act, illegal recruitment shall mean any act of canvassing, enlisting, contracting, transporting, utilizing, hiring, procuring workers and includes referring, contact services, promising or advertising for employment abroad, whether for profit or not, when undertaken by a non-license or non-holder of authority contemplated under Article 13 (f) of Presidential Decree No. 442, as amended, otherwise known as the Labor Code of the Philippines. Provided, that such non-license or non-holder, who, in any manner, offers or promises for a fee employment abroad to two or more persons shall be deemed so engaged. It shall likewise include the following acts, whether committed by any persons, whether a non-licensee, non-holder, licensee or holder of authority.
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(m) Failure to reimburse expenses incurred by the workers in connection with his documentation and processing for purposes of deployment, in cases where the deployment does not actually take place without the worker's fault. Illegal recruitment when committed by a syndicate or in large scale shall be considered as offense involving economic sabotage.