AFFIDAVIT OF DESISTANCE

I, JUVIE-LYN YAMBAO PUNONGBAYAN, 17 years of age, a resident of No. 5 Uranus Street, Congressional Avenue Subdivision, Quezon City, duly assisted by private legal counsel and my parents, after having duly sworn in accordance with law, depose and say: 1. That I am the Complainant in the rape case filed against Mayor Bayani Arthur Alonte of Bian, Laguna, with the RTC-Branch 25 of Bian, Laguna; 2. That the case has been pending for some time, on preliminary issues, specifically, (a) change of venue, filed with the Supreme Court; (b) propriety of the appeal to the Court of Appeals, and after its denial by said court, brought to the Office of the President, on the veracity of the findings of the Five-Man Investigating Panel of the State Prosecutors Office, and the Secretary of Justice, and (c) a hold -departure order filed with the Bian Court. 3. That the legal process moves ever so slowly, and meanwhile, I have already lost two (2) semesters of my college residence. And when the actual trial is held after all the preliminary issues are finally resolved, I anticipate a still indefinite suspension of my schooling to attend the hearings; 4. That during the entire period since I filed the case, my family has lived a most abnormal life: my father and mother had to give up their jobs; my younger brother, who is in fourth grade, had to stop his schooling, like myself; 5 That I do not blame anyone for the long, judicial process, I simply wish to stop and live elsewhere with my family, where we can start life anew, and live normally once again; 6. That I pray that I be allowed to withdraw my complaint for rape and the other charge for child abuse wherein the Five-Man Investigating Panel of the Office of the State Prosecutor found a prima facie case although the information has not been filed, and that I will not at any time revive this, and related cases or file new cases, whether, criminal, civil, and/or administrative, here or anywhere in the Philippines; 7 That I likewise realize that the execution of this Affidavit will put to doubt my credibility as a witnesscomplainant; 8. That this is my final decision reached without fear or favor, premised on a corresponding commitment that there will be no reprisals in whatever form, against members of the police force or any other official of officer, my relatives and friends who extended assistance to me in whatever way, in my search for justice. WHEREOF, I affix my signature this 25 day of June, 1997, in Quezon City. (Sgd) JUVIE-LYN Y. PUNONGBAYAN Complainant Assisted by:

(Sgd) ATTY. REMEDIOS C. BALBIN Private Prosecutor In the presence of: (Sgd) PABLO PUNONGBAYAN Father (Sgd) JULIE Y. PUNONGBAYAN Mother SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 25 day of June, 1997, in Quezon City. (Sgd) Illegible Administering Officer 2