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Villarba v. CA (Ponenete J. Leonen)

Omar Villarba appealed a conviction for violating the Anti-Hazing Act of 1995. Wilson Dordas III was recruited by Villarba into the Junior Order of Kalantiao Fraternity and was subjected to hazing during an initiation ritual at a beach resort in 2001. Dordas was blindfolded, punched, tortured physically and psychologically by Villarba and other members. This caused injuries to Dordas, including liver damage requiring hospitalization. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, finding that the prosecution had proven the hazing met the legal definition of inflicting physical and psychological suffering or injury during an initiation ritual.

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Villarba v. CA (Ponenete J. Leonen)

Omar Villarba appealed a conviction for violating the Anti-Hazing Act of 1995. Wilson Dordas III was recruited by Villarba into the Junior Order of Kalantiao Fraternity and was subjected to hazing during an initiation ritual at a beach resort in 2001. Dordas was blindfolded, punched, tortured physically and psychologically by Villarba and other members. This caused injuries to Dordas, including liver damage requiring hospitalization. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, finding that the prosecution had proven the hazing met the legal definition of inflicting physical and psychological suffering or injury during an initiation ritual.

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Omar Villarba v.

CA and People of the Philippines


G. R. 227777

LEONEN, J.:

Facts: In August 2001 Omar Villarba as Chairman of Junior Order of Kalantiao


Fraternity recruited his classmate Wilson Dordas III.
On September 15, 2001 Dordas and all the other applicants where brought to
Racrap Beach Resort in Calaparan, Arevalo, Iloilo City to undergo their final rights. All
the applicants where subjected to hazing by the said fraternity. Dordas where blind
folded punched and tortured physically and psychologically by Villarba and the other
members present in the initiation rights. Dordas blindfold fell so he saw the perpetrators
of his injury. He was punched by Villarba and the other defendants which caused him to
be hospitalized and his liver to be damaged.

Issue: Whether or not Villarba and the other members of the Junior Order
of Kalantiao are guilty of violation of R.A. 8049 otherwise known as Anti-Hazing Act of
1995?

Held: Yes. Supreme Court upheld the appealed decision of the Court of Appeals
and the Regional Trial Court that Villarba and the other accused is guilty of violation of
R.A. 8049 otherwise known as Anti-Hazing Act of 1995.
The prosecution were able to prove the requisite in the information of the Anti-
hazing that there is infliction of physical and psychological suffering or injury which
results to initiation or hazing of the recruit, neophyte or applicant. Since initiation formed
part of initiation of a fraternity, they already form part of the definition of hazing as
explained by the Court of Appeals. In any case it did “not make the accused ignorant of
crime they were being charged of.”
As to the change of name of Dordas and putting “III” at the end of it it need not
undergo another arraignment for the amendment is merely a formal amendment which
does not affect the essence of the offense.

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