NOTE: THIS STORY WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED IN THE BOHOL CHRONICLE’S SUNDAY PRINT EDITION.
Lars Flemming Heding Nielsen, the Danish national who was earlier convicted by Judge Leo Moises Lison of the Regional Trial Court Branch 3 in Tagbilaran City on December 19 of seven (7) counts of the crime of Child Abuse (Lascivious Conduct) under Section 5 (b), Article III of Republic Act 7610 or the Anti-Child Abuse Act has been arrested.
He is now detained at the Panglao PNP lockup jail.
The arrest was conducted by a joint team of police officers from the Municipal Police Stations of Dauis and Panglao on December 28, pursuant to a warrant of arrest dated December 27 issued by the RTC-Branch 3.
After the promulgation of judgment, the Court cancelled Nielsen’s bail, even while his counsel filed a motion to post bail pending appeal, since bail is no longer a matter of right in the Court of Appeals.
The sexual abuses were committed in the years 2014-2015 in a resort in Doljo, Panglao, Bohol against two minor children (boys), then 14/16 years old.
In each of these 7 counts, Nielsen was meted an indeterminate penalty of eight (8) years and one (1) day of prision mayor, as minimum, to seventeen (17) years, four (4) months and one (1) day of reclusion temporal, as maximum. He was further ordered to pay each victim P50,000 as civil indemnity and P50,000 for moral damages.
The cases were handled by private prosecutor lawyer Esther Gertrude D. Biliran.