Lawyer Ferdinand Topacio is asking for P5,000,000.00 for moral damages,
P500,000.00 for exemplary damages and P230,000.00 for legal fees and
expenses from Carina Binene, mother of Kapuso star Bea Binene and GMA
officers Simon Ferrer, Lynn Delfin and Atty. Flordeliza Vargas.
In
his affidavit, Topacio, who filed the charges on October 25 in Tanuan,
Batangas, said that the defendants ruined his good name.
Topacio
made the move after Bea’s camp refused to issue the public apology the
lawyer demanded over what he said are false claims they issued against
him.
The issue started when Topacio filed a child abuse case
against radio disc jockey Dan Christian Villanueva, a.k.a. Papa Dan on
Bea’s behalf at the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)
last Sept. 3.
Since Papa Dan stayed at the Binenes’ guest house for seven months without pay, Carina allegedly sought Topacio’s legal advice.
GMA Artist Center, meanwhile, said Topacio was not authorized to file the child abuse case and that it has assigned Vargas as Bea’s legal counsel instead.
Bea and her camp just laughed off the prospect of a public apology and insisted they have pieces of evidences to defend themselves.
As for Bea and Papa Dan, the issue has since been resolved and considered closed.
