CA grants Recto custody,
Peña won’t give up child
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Court of Appeals has awarded actress Marie Roxanne “Plinky” Recto permanent custody of her son with Pulupandan Mayor Magdaleno Peña, but has upheld the lower court ruling denying her a Permanent Protection Order, saying the acts she alleged against the mayor did not constitute violence.

The CA Special Fifth Division, in its decision promulgated on October 14, said it was partially granting the appeal of Recto, and was affirming the July 12, 2007 decision of the Regional Trial Court of Mandaluyong City Branch 214 with modification.

Peña yesterday said the issue of custody is dead because his son is now out of the country.

The suspension of the 17 Silay City employees stays for now.

The Supreme Court has dismissed their petition asking it to prohibit the Office of the Ombudsman from continuing their eight-month and one day suspension from work.

The SC Second Division, in its resolution dated September 12, said the arguments adduced in the petition for prohibition with urgent application for a temporary restraining order and or writ of preliminary injunction assailing the August 3, 2010, ruling of the Ombudsman, “failed to sufficiently show that the questioned decision is tainted with grave abuse of discretion”.

Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia will deliver his 11th State of the City Address tomorrow at the Sangguniang Panlungsod Session Hall at the Bacolod City Government Center.

The mayor will report to city officials, businessmen, the clergy and his constituents on the city’s performance and state from whom he hopes to get support for his priorities, programs and plans.

Leonardia yesterday recalled that he delivered his SOCA last year at the opening of the MassKara Festival, which was a celebration of Charter Day.