Deniece Cornejo claims Vhong Navarro also raped her on Jan.17

TV host-actor Vhong Navarro forced himself on Deniece Cornejo twice in January according to the counter-affidavit she submitted to the Department of Justice on Friday.

 

According to Cornejo's 20-page statement, Navarro also raped her on Jan. 17 in the Bonifacio Global City condominium unit she stayed at. Cornejo had initially said she and Navarro only talked.

 

Navarro, for his part, said Cornejo performed oral sex on him on the 17th but that their encounter ended there.

He said that was the reason he sent her a text message saying "bawi ako sa iyo (I'll make it up to you)." He said it was in response to a message from her that said "bad boy ka talaga." 

 

According to a report on "24 Oras" aired Saturday, Cornejo's affidavit alleges she was raped on Jan.17 and on Jan.22, when Navarro was mauled and brought to a police station to sign a blotter report.  

 

"I initially did not say anything about the rape on the 17th because I was very ashamed about it. I did not want everyone to know that Kuya Vhong had entered me and had forced himself upon me," Cornejo said in her affidavit.
 

She said she was forced to disclose the alleged rape on Jan.17 because Navarro lied and because he claimed that she voluntarily gave him oral sex.

Cornejo said Navarro became "more aggressive" and began touching her private parts. She said the TV host forced her to perform oral sex and to have intercourse.

Cornejo also cast doubt on the injuries that Navarro sustained when he was mauled on Jan.22, which Cornejo and her camp say was prompted by an attempt to rape her.

She also said closed-circuit television footage submitted to the National Bureau of Investigation that supposedly shows the events of Jan.22 was “unauthenticated, evidently tampered and altered."

 

In a separate report on "24 Oras" on Saturday, Navarro's camp said they were surprised by the new rape accusation.
 

Lawyer Alma Mallonga, Navarro's counsel, said it was clear that Cornejo lied in her counter-affidavit.

She said Cornejo may have changed her statement to counter the release of CCTV footage, which seems to bolster Navarro's version of events on the 22nd.

 

Mallonga said Cornejo's new disclosure on the alleged Jan. 17 rape will damage her credibility. — JDS, GMA News