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	Obama Pardon Sought by Filipino Priest By Tetch Torres Global Nation January 28 2009 http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20090128-186046/Obama-pardon-sought-by-Filipino-priest MANILA, Philippines -- US President Barack Obama has been asked by a convicted Filipino priest to grant him clemency, the Public Attorney’s Office said. "Father Jose Superiaso requested me to be of assistance to him so that he may be given the chance by His Excellency to be awarded the benefit of Presidential Clemency and Parole under the US State Laws and Systems," said PAO Chief Persida Ruada-Acosta who relayed the priest’s message in a letter to Obama. Superiaso, a former priest at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Daly City, was found guilty of molesting a 12-year-old girl in 1995. "His incarceration for more than five years in the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, California, to our humble opinion has already satisfied the rehabilitative and reformative intent of incarceration," she said. Acosta said Superiaso insisted that he was innocent. Acosta said she was hoping that Obama would look into Superiaso's plight "with magnanimity and compassion so that he could return to his native land, here in the Philippines, where he could revert to his spiritual duties and responsibilities."
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