Ex-cop denies rape charges

Saturday, January 21, 2012

THE former cop who faces two charges for rape denied Friday that he raped his minor neighbor, claiming that the charges against him are politically motivated.

Armando Colado alias “Boy”, 58, of Ciocon Road, Barangay 26, Bacolod, said he didn’t rape the 10-year-old victim and he believes that there’s politics behind.
Colado, a former policeman, was arrested Wednesday by operatives of Sagay City PNP at Barangay Vito by virtue of arrest warrant for two counts of rape issued by Judge Anita Chua, Regional Trial Court-Branch 50, Bacolod City. No bail was recommended.

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Colado said he was surprised when he was charged with rape and he vehemently denied the charges.

He is one of the complainants who filed a plunder charge against Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia in 2009 but later he withdrew his complaint.

He claimed that someone is behind the filing of charges against him, citing that the victim was allegedly a former victim of rape. He also denied that he knows the victim.

“I believed that I can surpass this problem. I’m innocent of the charges filed against me,” he said.

Colado also admitted that he has a previous rape case in Escalante City in 1998 but it was dismissed.

Colado was a former member of Philippine National Police and was assigned in Escalante City and not in Bacolod City Police Office, as reported earlier. He was terminated from service in 2004 because of the abduction charges filed against him.

Colado is now blaming the person who promised him to reinstate him on his job if he would file a plunder case against the city mayor but now he said he’s facing the charges alone.

BCPO Director Senior Supt. Ricardo De la Paz said they already received the commitment order of Colado and he will be turned-over to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology-Handumanan.