THE Office of the Ombudsman has suspended an employee of the Lapu-Lapu City government after he was found guilty of “disgraceful and immoral conduct” for having a bigamous relationship with three women.
In a five-page decision, the Ombudsman’s office in the Visayas has ordered the suspension without pay of Marcelo Ybañez Jr. for six months and one day after he was found guilty of the complaint filed by his former live-in partner, Aida Villarin.
“His relationship other than his wife shows his moral indifference to the opinion of the good and respectable members of the community,” the Ombudsman’s decision said.
In her complaint, Villarin said it was in January 2011 when she found out that Ybanez had married two different women, a fact that was certified by the Office of the Civil Registrar General of the National Statistics.
Ybanez did not dispute the allegation. According to records, he married Consolacion Muga on October 1, 1993. Before that, he had married a certain Avelina Gorumba.
Despite the complication, Ybañez cohabited with Villarin. They have two children aged nine and seven years old.
Villarin said Ybanez left her and their two children for another woman, Mercedita Alpay who was their neighbor.
The Ombudsman said the first marriage of the respondent with Gorumba was still effective and that he is not eligible to contract a second marriage unless an appropriate court dissolved his first marriage. /Correspondent Apple Mae Ta-as