Cebu City Asst. Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro and Leodegredo Sanchez at a reception after their Muslim wedding. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)
SUSPENDED Cebu City Assistant Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro has filed a complaint for concubinage against her estranged husband Leodegreco Sanchez and the latter’s live-in partner.
Castro requested the Cebu City Prosecutors’ Office to conduct an investigation against Sanchez and Maricel Raffinan Gregory.
“Before his marriage with me, respondents Greco and Maricel were living together for a number of years in illicit relations,” Castro said in her affidavit.
Sought for comment over the phone, Leodegreco, son of the late Cebu vice governor Gregorio Sanchez, said he respects Castro’s decision to file a case against him.
“She (Castro) has the right to file a case. That’s her prerogative,” he told Cebu Daily News in Cebuano.
Castro and Leodegreco Sanchez got married in a Muslim ceremony at Harold’s Hotel in Cebu City on Aug. 18 last year, a day after Leodegreco was released from drug rehabilitation and treatment.
After about two months, they parted ways.
On Oct. 3, 2015, Castro said Leodegreco left their house in Talisay City to visit his sons.
Her husband never returned.
Castro said she later learned that her husband and Gregory have resumed living together.
Leodegreco said Castro is not his legal wife because his previous marriage to Virginia Magnase-Sanchez has not been annulled.
He said the prosecutor requested him to file a Certificate of Conversion to Islam while he was still inside a rehabilitation center on June 14, 2015.
Sanchez alleged that Castro took advantage of his mental and psychological condition.
He alleged that Castro married him because of the properties he inherited from his father.
“A week after we got married, she already demanded and insisted that her name be annotated on all our family properties which I inherited from my late father,” Leodegreco said.
“I felt so embarrassed to my family, particularly my sisters for the ‘utterly despicable’ kind of woman I was involved in, and who obviously is interested only in converting my properties,” he added.
Sanchez’s first civil marriage hasn’t been annulled yet. Castro’s first marriage, on the other hand, was annulled in 2014.