The Palawan Regional Trial Court has found Culion Mayor Cesar “Oyet” De Vera and his wife, Vice Mayor Maria Virginia Nakachi De Vera, guilty of child abuse for beating a 15-year-old boy inside a police station in 2018. In a 73-page decision, Acting Presiding Judge Ryan Hartzell Balisacan of RTC Branch 163 ruled that the couple was guilty beyond reasonable doubt of violating Republic Act 7610, or the Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination