National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) personnel said that the boss of the allegedly abused maid, Elvie Vergara, was not telling the truth when they subjected her to polygraph examinations or lie detector tests.
The NBI announced this during the ongoing investigation of the Senate justice and Human Rights Committee this Monday, concerning what happened to Vergara, who was blinded due to the cruelty of her boss.
In the hearing, Senator Jinggoy Estrada asked NBI polygraph examiners Eddie Betervo and John Greg Ferran if it was confirmed that the polygraph test results on France and Pablo Jerry Ruiz were “indicative of deceptions.”
“Ibig mo bang sabihin nagsisinungaling si Ginang France?” Estrada asked Ferran, who administered the test to France Ruiz.
Ferran answered yes, as did Betervo, when asked about the test he conducted on Pablo.
Estrada also asked the two NBI personnel how certain the examination results were. The two explained that they conducted three polygraph examinations on the couple, a standard procedure in the computerized polygraph system.
“After ng three series na ‘yon tiningnan po namin ang results [at] consistent ang kanyang reaction sa tanong na binigay ko sa kanya during the actual test… Consistent po na nagsisinungaling siya d’on,” said Betervo.
NBI personnel also said that the polygraph test is 99% accurate.
Before this, Sen Raffy Tulfo asked France if she had passed the test.
Elvie Vergara’s employers fail polygraph test – NBI
“Ako po ay nagsabi ng totoo…Pumasa po,” she said.
Two of Vergara’s co-workers also took the polygraph test, JM Taroma and Patrick Simbaon, who both passed, according to Estrada.
In the hearing this Monday, Pablo was also declared in contempt for lying to the Senate so he will also be placed in the custody of the assembly.
His wife was previously declared in contempt last week. They denied the allegation that they mistreated Vergara
Speaking for his clients, Atty. Lorman Arugay promptly challenged the verdict, stressing the need for the couple’s two children, ages 18 and 16, to be monitored by at least one of their parents.
“Should both of them be sent for detention your honor at the same time, the two children will be left alone in the said residence without any means of livelihood at this time, and without ay arrangement for the welfare of the two children,” Arugay said.
“They have visitation rights, Attorney. They can visit their parents,” Estrada said.
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