Janice del Rosario says she will pay her victims

The Filipino couple deported from Canada for estafa has been promising some estafa victims in Manila they would get their money back once the court grants an appeal their lawyer has yet to file. Dr. Richard “Dick" Dizon, head of the medical/dental services division of the House of Representatives, said one Sergeant Edgardo Lamban of the San Juan municipal jail came to his house Tuesday to send a message from Kaye Gravador del Rosario that he can recover the P338,165 he “invested" way back in 1994. The Quezon City regional trial court Branch 98 convicted Janice del Rosario, 44, in 1998 for eight counts of estafa, or violation of Batas Pambansa 22, also known as the bouncing checks law, filed by Dizon and his wife, Jennifer, in 1996. The del Rosarios are scheduled to be presented in the same court Thursday morning for arraignment on estafa cases filed in 2003 by Police Superintendent Constante Agpaoa who lost P7.16 million to the couple. Agpaoa has been keeping the couple in the police station where is officer in charge. He defied a court order on February 9 to bring the couple in court for arraignment and transfer of detention. After arraignment this Friday morning, Janice del Rosario will be “committed" to the Correctional Institute for Women in Mandaluyong City where she would have to serve the sentences of eight years imprisonment for the Dizon cases and another four years for a separate set of eight counts of estafa filed in 1996 by jeweler Dely Tan at the San Juan metropolitan trial court. Both convictions also carried an order for del Rosario, who used the name Flordeliza Kong Pace Tayzon, to indemnify the Dizon couple with P338,165 and Tan with P1.7 million. Kaye del Rosario would most likely be detained at the Quezon City jail in Camp Karingal while awaiting the court's decision on a motion to allow his temporary liberty upon payment of bail. Dizon said he felt insulted when Kaye told him in their conversation at the police station where the del Rosarios are detained that their dispute involved “pera pera lang" (just money). “It wasn’t just money. I worked hard for it. I did not steal it," Dizon told GMANews.TV. "It was easy for them to say it was just money because they stole their money from us." He said he does not believe the del Rosarios would pay up. He saw the move of the del Rosarios as a mere dilatory tactic and a threat that the victims would not be able to recover their money if the conviction is sustained. Dizon said Kaye told him that lawyer Rene Saguisag was preparing a motion for reconsideration either at the RTC or at the Court of Appeals. “We cannot withdraw anymore. We already got a conviction for them. It’s now in the court. And if they are serious, why don’t they make the formal manifestations in court?" Dizon pointed out. Other estafa victims of the couple both here and in Canada share a common belief that the del Rosarios will continue to deceive them with promises of paying up. “The couple will not pay anyone any money. They have absolutely no love or care for anyone. They do, however, love money," said Michael Labrecque , a 29-year-old real estate agent in Toronto who, along with his wife, Cecilia Ramos, lost C$120,000 (roughly P5 million) in 2006 to the del Rosarios. “The money is gone. Justice will be our satisfaction," Labrecque said. “The money will return in another way, from another form. Marc, another victim in Canada , said Janice kept on promising her she would get her money back. She never did, until the couple was deported from Toronto on Jan 19. “Don’t believe anything she says. She is a pathological liar," Marc said in an e-mail to GMANews.TV. “She has done this for so long that she has gotten good at it, perfected her craft of deceiving people." “She will not pay anybody back. She will shower you with empty promises and even provide you checks and promissory notes. The moment you forgive her, or let her go, she will use that opportunity to hide and run away again, like she did in the past many times, and she will scam people again," said Cecilia Ramos, 28, a mortgage broker in Toronto . – GMANews.TV