REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES)
QUEZON CITY                )SS.
                      AFFIDAVIT OF DESISTANCE
      I, RICHARD P. PEDRAJETA Filipino, of legal age, and with office
address at SSS Pasig-Rotunda Branch, Armal Bldg., Pasig Blvd. Extn.,
Caniogan, Pasig City, after having been duly sworn in accordance with
law, do hereby state:
   1. I am an Accounts Officer of the Social Security System (SSS) and
      currently assigned at the SSS Pasig-Rotunda Branch Office.
   2. I am the duly authorized representative of the private complainant,
      SSS, in the criminal case entitled People of the Philippines vs. Mary
      Joanne S. Lagman, pending before the Regional Trial Court Quezon
      City, Branch 95 and docketed thereat as Criminal Case No. R-
      QZN-18-12182.
   3. After careful reconsideration, I have come to realize that I had
      misappreciated the facts leading to the filing of the complaint and,
      on behalf of SSS, therefore, I am desisting from further prosecuting
      the case against the accused.
   4. I understand that this desistance will result in the dismissal of the
      case against the accused and that the private complainant will no
      longer be able to file any criminal or civil case against the accused
      or his agents, representatives, and successors-in-interest for any
      and all acts arising from the incident subject of the aforementioned
      criminal case.
   5. With that understanding, I hereby execute this Affidavit of
      Desistance freely, willingly and voluntarily.
   6. I am executing this Affidavit of Desistance to attest to the truth of
      the foregoing premises and for whatever legal purpose it may serve.
                                    RICHARD P. PEDRAJETA
                                           Affiant
       SUBSCRIBED        AND      SWORN        TO     before    me     this
___________________________, in ___________________________, I hereby
certify that I have examined the affiant and he has affirmed to me that
the contents of the foregoing Affidavit of Desistance are true and correct,
and are of his own personal knowledge and that he executed the same of
his own free and voluntary will.
                                     Assistant City Prosecutor