BY CZARINA ONG KI
Former Army Colonel Jessie Mario Borja Dosado was sentenced to a total of one-year imprisonment after being found guilty of three counts of sexual harassment he committed seven years ago.
The Sandiganbayan also slapped Dosado of P60,000 fine and apart from being ordered to indemnify each of his victims with P5,000 by way of moral damages.
Dosado was found guilty of violating three counts of Section 3 of R.A. 7877 or the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act and was sentenced to four months imprisonment for each of the charges for taking advantage of his position and inducing two women to perform or engage in sexual acts against their will on three separate occasions.
The first one took place on May 16, 2013 in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City when he demanded that a subordinate employee, a female master sergeant detailed at the Philippine Army Procurement Center (PAPC), to watch him having sexual intercourse with a woman named “Miss Glacy.”
He even asked her to join them in a threesome, and as a result, created “a hostile or offensive working environment” for the woman.
On October 22, 2013, Dosado solicited a sexual favor from a different subordinate employee – his secretary. Dosado asked her to wipe his back while he was naked, and told her to give him a bath.
Then on October 25, 2013, Dosado once again put his secretary in a compromising situation when he instructed her to apply lotion on his private part. He asked her lewd questions about how she felt while applying the lotion, and even told her to compare the size of his private part with that of her husband’s.
The 62-page decision was written by Sixth Division Chairperson Sarah Jane Fernandez with the concurrence of Associate Justices Karl Miranda and Kevin Narce Vivero. (Czarina Ong Ki)
