2 ex-PMA cadets convicted of murder, 1 guilty of hazing in Dormitorio death

  • 2 weeks ago
Three former cadets of the Philippine Military Academy are found guilty of hazing and killing freshman cadet Darwin Dormitorio. They are all sentenced to reclusion perpetua.

Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/luzon/ex-pma-cadets-convicted-darwin-dormitorio-death/
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00:00Three former cadets of the Philippine Military Academy are found guilty of hazing and killing
00:05freshman cadet Darwin Dormitorio. On Friday, August 16, Branch 5 of the Baguio City Regional
00:12Trial Court convicts Shalimar Imperial Jr. and Felix Lumbag Jr. of murder and Julius
00:17Carlo Tadena of violating the anti-hazing law. All three were a batch ahead of 20-year-old
00:23Dormitorio when he died in September 2019 from serious injuries inflicted by his fellow cadets.
00:29The incident exposed the long-entrenched culture of hazing in the country's top military school,
00:34which is run by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The court orders Imperial and
00:38Lumbag to each pay P3 million in fines and Tadena to pay P2 million.
00:44They are all sentenced to reclusion perpetua.

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