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The drama continues.
“In a ‘very urgent’ 10-page motion, Krisel Mallari — the Santo Niño Parochial School (SNPS) salutatorian who became controversial after criticizing the school in her high school graduation speech — asked the second division of the Court of Appeals (CA) to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of SNPS registrar Yolanda Casero and other officials,” reports Edu Punay in The Philippine Star.
Mallari told the CA that her former school still refused to issue her a Certificate of Good Moral Character despite the injunction order issued by the CA on Tue, Jul 28. Thus, Mallari urged the CA to cite the school for contempt.
The report noted: “Mallari and her father Ernesto went to the school last Wed, Jul 29, after getting the CA order and learned that the SNPS has also received the order. But the SNPS refused to comply with the CA resolution, reportedly upon the advice of the school lawyer, a certain ‘Attorney Resurreccion,’ who was planning to appeal the order.”
Mallari said her case was urgent because “there are only two working days left for her to process her enrollment with the University of Sto. Tomas to be able to avail of the scholarship offered by the said school.”
The CA had already ordered the SNPS to release Mallari’s certificate of good moral character to allow her to enroll in UST. It pointed out that the school’s refusal to issue Mallari’s certificate was “unreasonable” and showed “chronic lack of concern to a child who it has reared for 11 years under its care.”
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