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Friday, January 28, 2005
Women’s center opposes Castro application to be judge
By Karlon N. Rama
Sun.Star Staff Reporter
THE Legal Alternatives for Women Center (Law) Inc. does not support Mary Ann Castro’s application to the judiciary, her claim of “beauty and talent” notwithstanding.
Dolores M. Aliño, Law Inc. executive director, wrote the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) as well as Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. last Wednesday about the organization’s outright opposition to Castro’s bid.
The group is “dismayed” that the JBC considered Castro for interview because they already raised their objection as early as September last year.
“We are openly in support of the Supreme Court (and) your cleaning up the judiciary to restore the trust of the people in our judicial system. However, if you will allow the entrance of one with the likes of Mary Ann Castro, also known as Mary Ann Castro-Roa, to be a member of the judiciary, we are afraid that all the more that the people’s trust in our judicial system will eventually be eroded,” Law Inc. said in the letter.
Mockery
“We still maintain up to this very day that Mary Ann Castro-Roa does not deserve to be a member of the judiciary. By her past and present actions, she has degraded the legal profession and has even mocked the judicial system by getting herself involved in anomalous transactions,” the group further said.
Law Inc. is a nongovernment organization that provides free litigation as well as other extra-legal services to women.
Sun.Star Cebu tried but failed to reach Castro for comment. In a previous interview, she said the JBC knew about the objections raised against her application. It even came out in the interview.
She said Justice Regino Hermosisima was the one who raised the issue and added that she merely invoked her right to be presumed innocent.
Using her married name, Castro-Roa, the prosecutor went to the Waterfront Hotel in Lahug, Cebu City last Jan. 25 and, together with a handful of other lawyers in both public and private service, took the entrance examination conducted by the JBC.
During the interview, Hermosisma asked why Castro wanted to join the judiciary, to which the lady prosecutor replied: “to do God’s purpose.”
(January 28, 2005 issue)
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