An overseas Filipino worker from Isabela province who used a fictitious name in marrying a Catandunganon woman in 2007 has been sued for psychological violence as penalized under Republic Act 9262 and violation of laws regulating the use of aliases.According to the complainant, she met Nolan John Molina in January 2006 while they were working in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and had a dating relationship by June. They eventually got married on January 10, 2007 at the House of the Minister in Project 7, Quezon City, with Molina signing the marriage certificate using that name. On February 14 that same year, he left for Saudi Arabia and never returned.
Two weeks after her husband’s departure, she discovered his travel documents at her parents’ house in Virac and learned that his true name is Pablo Jay Rivera Mamauag, a native of barangay Calamagui, San Pablo, Isabela.
She was able to locate his sister in Isabela and the latter confirmed to her that the man whom she married as Nolan John Molina is in fact her brother Pablo Jay. The complainant later found out that Pablo Jay is now living with another woman, with whom he has two children.
In charging him of economic and psychological abuse, she claimed that he deprived her and their son of financial support. She disclosed that before she gave birth to their son, she asked him for financial assistance. He sent her P30,000, after which he no longer provided them any financial support.
Included in the evidence submitted by the complainant was a certification from the Office of the Civil Registrar General of the National Statistics Office that it does not have any record of birth of Nolan John Vargas Molina allegedly born in San Pablo, Isabela on Jan. 27, 1972. The Provincial Prosecution Office sent a subpoena to the respondent’s address but he could not be located.
In finding probable cause against Mamauag, Prosecutor II Mary Jane Zantua said that there is reason to believe that the respondent employed deception through insidious words, schemes or machinations in order to induce the complainant to believe that he was legally marrying her.
“It is highly probable that respondent’s elaborate acts of deception and misrepresentation, as well as his omission to reveal his real name, caused complainant untold mental or emotional suffering, public ridicule and humiliation,” she stressed.
However, the prosecutor found nothing in the complaint to show economic abuse on the part of the respondent as well as any evidence that he attempted to restrict or actually restricted her freedom of movement, including depriving or threatening to deprive the woman or her child of financial support or deliberately providing complainant’s child with insufficient financial support.
Source: catanduanestribune.com
