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SECOND DIVISION
[G.R. No. 137268. March 26, 2001]
THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. EUTIQUIA
CARMEN @ Mother Perpetuala, CELEDONIA FABIE @ Isabel Fabie,
DELIA SIBONGA @ Deding Sibonga, ALEXANDER SIBONGA @
Nonoy Sibonga, and REYNARIO NUÑEZ @ Rey Nuñez, accused-
appellants.
D E C I S I O N
MENDOZA, J.:
This is an appeal from the decision
[1]
of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 14, Cebu City,
finding accused-appellants Eutiquia Carmen @ Mother Perpetuala, Celedonia Fabie @ Isabel
Fabie, Delia Sibonga @ Deding Sibonga, Alexander Sibonga @ Nonoy Sibonga, and Reynario
Nuñez @ Rey Nuñez guilty of murder and sentencing them to suffer the penalty of reclusion
perpetua and to pay the heirs of the victim the amount ofP50,000.00 as indemnity as well as the
costs.
The information
[2]
against accused-appellants alleged:
That on or about the 27th day of January, 1997 at about 2:00 o’clock p.m., in the City
of Cebu, Philippines, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the said
accused, conniving and confederating together and mutually helping one another, with
deliberate intent, with intent to kill, with treachery and evident premeditation, did then
and there inflict fatal physical injuries on one Randy Luntayao which injuries caused
the death of the said Randy Luntayao.
Accused-appellants pleaded not guilty to the charge, whereupon they were tried.
The prosecution presented evidence showing the following: At around 2 o’clock in the
afternoon of January 27, 1997, Honey Fe Abella, 10, and her friend Frances Claire Rivera, 7, were
playing takyan in front of the house of one Bebing Lastimoso in Quiot, Pardo, Cebu City, when
suddenly they heard a child shout, Tabang ma!” (“Help mother!”). The cry came from the
direction of the house of accused-appellant Carmen, who is also known in their neighborhood as
Mother Perpetuala. The two children ran towards Mother Perpetuala’s house.
[3]
What Honey Fe
saw on which she testified in court, is summarized in the decision of the trial court, to wit:
While there[,] she saw a boy, whose name . . . she [later] came to know as one Randy
Luntayao, . . . being immersed head first in a drum of water. Accused Alexander

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Sibonga was holding the waist of the body while accused Reynario Nuñez held the
hands of the boy at the back. Accused Eutiquia Carmen, Delia Sibonga, and Celedonia
Fabie were pushing down the boy’s head into the water. She heard the boy shouting
“Ma, help” for two times. Later, she saw accused Reynario or Rey Nuñez tie the boy
on the bench with a green rope as big as her little finger. . . . After that Eutiquia
Carmen poured [water from] a plastic container (galon) . . . into the mouth of the
boy. Each time the boy struggled to raise his head, accused Alexander Sibonga
banged the boy’s head against the bench [to] which the boy was tied down. She even
heard the banging sound everytime the boy’s head hit the bench. For about five times
she heard it. According to this witness after forcing the boy to drink water, Eutiquia
Carmen and accused Celedonia Fabie alias Isabel Fabie took turns in pounding the
boy’s chest with their clenched fists. All the time Rey Nuñez held down the boy’s
feet to the bench. She also witnessed . . . Celedonia Fabie dropped her weight,
buttocks first, on the body of the boy. Later on, Eutiquia Carmen ordered Delia or
Deding Sibonga to get a knife from the kitchen. Eutiquia Carmen then slowly
plunged the stainless knife on the left side of the boy’s body and with the use of a
plastic gallon container, the top portion of which was cut out, Eutiquia Carmen
[caught] the blood dripping from the left side of the boy’s body. Honey Fe heard the
moaning coming from the tortured boy. Much later she saw Nonoy or Alexander
Sibonga, Reynario Nuñez, Delia Sibonga, Celedonia Fabie, and Eutiquia Carmen
carry the boy into the house.
[4]
Eddie Luntayao, father of the victim, testified that he has five children, the eldest of whom,
Randy, was 13 years old at the time of the incident. On November 20, 1996, Randy had a “nervous
breakdown” which Eddie thought was due to Randy having to skip meals whenever he took the
boy with him to the farm. According to Eddie, his son started talking to himself and laughing. On
January 26, 1997, upon the suggestion of accused-appellant Reynario Nuñez, Eddie and his wife
Perlita and their three children (Randy, Jesrel, 7, and Lesyl, 1) went with accused-appellant Nuñez
to Cebu. They arrived in Cebu at around 1 o’clock in the afternoon of the same day and spent the
night in Nuñez’s house in Tangke, Talisay.
The following day, they went to the house of accused-appellant Carmen in Quiot,
Pardo,
[5]
where all of the accused-appellants were present. Eddie talked to accused-appellant
Carmen regarding his son’s condition. He was told that the boy was possessed by a “bad spirit,”
which accused-appellant Carmen said she could exorcise. She warned, however, that as the spirit
might transfer to Eddie, it was best to conduct the healing prayer without him. Accused-appellants
then led Randy out of the house, while Eddie and his wife and two daughters were locked inside a
room in the house.
[6]
After a while, Eddie heard his son twice shout “Ma, tabang!” (“Mother, help!”). Eddie tried
to go out of the room to find out what was happening to his son, but the door was locked. After
about an hour, the Luntayaos were transferred to the prayer room which was located near the main
door of the house.
[7]

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