QC teacher to face charges?

The Quezon City Prosecutor's Office is set to decide next week whether to file homicide charges against public school teacher Laila de Ocampo in connection with a pupil's death, The STAR learned Friday.

This came as a surprise to De Ocampo's new lawyer, Pete Lazo, who had expected Assistant City Prosecutor Lorna Chua-Cheng to first subpoena the physician who attended to nine-year-old Ronald Dacarra before his death last Dec. 9.

His client is accused of causing the boy's death by banging his head with that of another pupil, Lorendo Orayan, who is the principal witness in the case.

The lawyer, who tookover from counsel Joey Peter Osita, was to present to the prosecutor Friday a request to summon Dr. Jonathan Salvador of the East Avenue Medical Center to shed light on the boy's alleged wrongful death.

Osita withdrew from the case after he was accused of facilitating an attempt to bribe Orayan's mother, Erlinda, with P100,000 in cash to keep her son from testifying.

Mrs. Orayan revealed the alleged bribery attempt after what she said, was a sleepless night wrestling with a guilty conscience. She also turned over a thick wad of one thousand-peso bills to the private prosecutor, lawyer Pete Principe.

But The STAR learned that Mrs. Orayan, all by herself, asked the prosecutor yesterday to submit the matter for resolution.--