Wife catches hubby, lover

A 2007 Bar topnotcher and another lawyer were arrested by police inside a pension house in Cebu City early Friday morning after they were accused of having an extra-marital affair by the legal wife.

Ivy Grace Llido, also a lawyer, filed charges of concubinage as well as “psychological and emotional abuse” in relation to Republic Act 9262 or Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act of 2004 against her husband Christian.

The charges were riled before the Cebu City Prosecutors’ Office yesterday afternoon.

Christian, who ranked 10th in the 2007 Bar Examinations, was caught with a female lawyer inside one of the rooms of New Era Cebu Pension Inn in Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City.

Ivy Grace said she chanced on her husband’s car at the parking space of the pension house near their workplace.

When presented before Prosecutor Aurora Peñaflor, the two respondents opted not to file a counter-affidavit and waived their right to a preliminary investigation, which could have given them the chance to refute the allegations.

Christian’s lawyer Jay Pujanes told Cebu Daily News that they will post bail once the charges will be elevated to court.
Pujanes and the respondents declined to issue any statement.

Christian, 34, and the female lawyer covered their faces with shawls when they were brought by police to the Prosecutors’ Office at past 4 p.m. yesterday.

Ivy Grace said she would not enter into any settlement with the respondents.

“I’m fed up. I won’t settle this case with them,” she said in Cebuano.

In her affidavit, Ivy Grace said her husband kept on texting her Thursday evening as to her whereabouts.

She told him she was having a massage because her body was sore from the fertility drugs she was taking.

She said she found it strange that her husband would check on her whereabouts, so she texted her husband at around 7 p.m.

When she didn’t receive an answer, she decided to call her husband, but her husband allegedly rejected her calls.

“I was very worried and horrified about what he was doing. I couldn’t understand my feeling. It gave me an idea that my husband was doing something wrong,” Ivy Grace said.

She said she decided to check the hotels near the law office of her husband and found her husband’s car parked at the New Era Cebu Pension Inn.

Ivy Grace went inside the pension house and looked for her husband. A receptionist at first denied seeing her husband inside the pension house, but the receptionist eventually gave her the room number where her husband and the female lawyer were registered.

Ivy Grace said the female lawyer was a legal researcher of her husband.

Ivy Grace said she went to the room and knocked. Since no one opened it, she decided to get the key card from one of the room boys.

But when she was about to open the door, she said her husband allegedly stopped her and told her in Cebuano, “You can’t enter yet.”

She said she was humiliated by what she saw and felt hurt because her husband had previously assured her that he and the female lawyer were not intimately involved when she questioned him.

When she saw them inside the room, Ivy Grace contacted the police.

But when the police arrived, her husband and the female lawyer refused to leave the room. It was only after one of the Llidos’ wedding sponsors arrived that Ivy Grace was able to enter the room.

Police later brought the husband and female lawyer to the police station.