The Regional Trial Court in Benguet province dismissed the cyberlibel charge filed by a retired police general against two staff members of an online alternative news site for “insufficient evidence.”
, Benguet, junked the case after the prosecution “failed to prove the existence of all the elements of libel.”
She concluded that the prosecution established that the retired police official did make the statement in a Viber discussion with a SunStar Baguio reporter who posted the initial report online. “The imputation of a statement he actually made — also in a manner bearing the same import with the one made by [the SunStar reporter] which bears his stamp of approval — dismisses actual malice and knowledge of any falsehood,” the judge said.
Humiding said “the truth of the statement made was actually established by the evidence and during the trial.”Nordis on Monday welcomed the court’s dismissal of the cyberlibel charges against Quitasol and Abalos. Quitasol is also the Inquirer’s Baguio and Benguet correspondent. “The court’s decision affirms our commitment to truthful reporting and the public good,” Nordis said.
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