REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

NATIONAL CAPITAL JUDICIAL REGION
MAKATI CITY
BRANCH 150

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES

Plaintiff,

Crim Case No. 09121620

For: Estafa through Falsification and
Forgery

-versus-

Frank William Abagnale, Jr.,

Accused.
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JUDICIAL AFFIDAVIT
(OF WITNESS PAULETTE ABAGNALE
FOR THE ACCUSED FRANK WILLIAM
ABAGNALE, JR.)

I, PAULETTE ABAGNALE, of legal age and a resident of

____________________________, after having been duly sworn to in
accordance with law, do hereby depose and say THAT:

PREFATORY STATEMENT

a. Atty. Gil Paulo B. Gomez conducted/supervised my judicial

affidavit in their office address at ______________ City;

b. I hereby answer the following questions propounded as my

judicial affidavit in the above-captioned case, after having been
sworn in accordance with law, fully conscious that I answer the

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 same under oath and that I may face criminal liability for false
testimony or perjury.

PURPOSE: To testify that there was a big impact on the life of the
accused being a minor during the time me and my former husband
decided to get a divorce decree.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:

1. Q: Could you please state for the record your personal

circumstances?
A:

2. Q: Do you know the accused in this case?

A: Yes, sir.

3. Q: What is your relation to the accused?

A: He is my biological son, sir.

4. Q: Do you have any evidence to prove that the accused is your

biological son?
A: Yes, sir. His baptisma certificate.

5. Q: If that birth certificate will be shown to you, will you be able to

identify the same?
A: Yes, sir.

6. Q: I am showing to you a Baptismal Certificate with Registry No.

_____________ take a look at this and tell this Honorable Court the
relation of this baptismal certificate with the one that you
mentioned a while ago.
A: This is the same baptismal certificate that I mentioned a while
ago.

Your Honor we moved that the said Baptismal Certificate with

Registry No.__________________ be marked as Exhibit “____”

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7. Why are you here in this court?
A: I am here to prove that my son committed the crimes during his
minority without his discernment and the root cause of committing
it, is because of my decision with my former husband to separate
ways and file a divorce decree.

8. Q: When did you file your divorce decree?

A: Me and my ex-husband decided to file the divorce decree some
time in the late 2016 and we told our son, the herein accused about
that and we asked him right there and then that he should choose
and decide between me or his Dad.

9. Q: Do you have any proof about your divorce decree?

A: Yes, sir, the court decision dated Dec. 16, 2016.

10. Q: If that court decision dated Dec. 16, 2016, will be shown to you,
will you be able to identify the same?
A: Yes, sir.

11. Q: I am showing to you the court decision dated Dec. 16, 2016, take
a look at this and tell this Honorable Court the relation of this court
decision dated Dec. 16, 2016 with the one that you mentioned a
while ago.
A: This is the same court decision of our divorce decree that I
mentioned a while ago, sir.

Your Honor we moved that the said court decision dated Dec. 16,
2016 be marked as Exhibit “___”

12. When you asked your son about the said decision, what happened
next, if any?
A: He got mad and cannot accept our decision. He was confused
and lost. He cried and left us our dwelling without any advice
where he will go.

13. Q: After he left your dwelling, what happened next, if any?

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 A: I lost contact with my son and I left also our dwelling since there
was already a divorce decree, I said good bye to my ex-husband and
I settled the rest of my life with my new husband.

14. Q: As the mother of the herein accused, any words to say before
this Honorable Court for making your son’s life less fortunate?
A: Yes, sir. I felt that I did not do anything for the best interest of
my son, I chose my happiness than his happiness. I did not provide
the comfort of life that he should experience and I know that I
failed being a good mother to him. He was very young and
innocent when me and my ex-husband decided to file a divorce
decree, he did not know what to do, I cannot blame him for having
committed these crimes, if only I can reverse the time and correct
all my wrongdoings, I will do it for the love of my son.

15. Q: What do you ask of this Honorable Court?

A: I am begging the indulgence of the Honorable Court that the
accused be mitigated for having committed the crimes during his
minority and he acted without his discernment and the reason why
he committed such crimes is because of me and his dad for
deciding to have a divorce decree.

16. Q: No further questions, your Honor.

17.

Atty. GIL PAULO B. GOMEZ: That is all for the Witness, your
Honor.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this

___day of ____________ at Makati City, Philippines.

PAULETTE ABAGNALE
Affiant

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 SWORN STATEMENT OF LAWYER

I, ATTY. GIL PAULO B. GOMEZ, of legal age, Filipino, with office

address at _____________________________ City, after having duly
sworn depose and say that:

1. I was the one who conducted the examination of PAULETTE

ABAGNALE, witness for the Accused FRANK WILLIAM ABAGNALE,
JR. at _______________________________ City;

2. I have faithfully recorded or caused to be recorded the questions I

asked and the corresponding answer that the accused gave;

3. I, nor any other person then present or assisting her coached the
witness regarding his answers.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ____ day of

May 2018 at __________.

ATTY. GIL PAULO B. GOMEA

Affiant

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me, a Notary Public in and for

Makati this ____ day of December __________. Affiant personally came
and appeared with his Integrated Bar of the Philippines ID bearing her
photograph and signature, known to me as the person who personally
signed the foregoing instrument before me and avowed under penalty of
law to the whole truth of the contents of said instrument.

__________________
Notary Public
Doc. No. ______
Page No.______
Book No.______
Series of 20____

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