Maggie Dela Riva

Maggie Dela Riva

Magdalena T. dela Riva (Maggie dela Riva) (born 1942) in the Philippines, is a Filipino movie actress, who has appeared in about 80 films.

She is most widely known outside the Philippines for an incident in her early career (1967), when she was abducted and raped. She gave evidence against her abductors, which resulted in the conviction of Jaime G. Jose, a popular music band leader and scion of a wealthy Manila family, Basilio Pineda Jr., Rogelio Canal, and Edgardo P. Aquino, by Regional Trial Court Judge Lourdes San Diego. Three of them were executed in the Manila electric chair on May 17, 1972, and by order of President Marcos, the electrocutions were shown on national television - the fourth, Rogelio Canal, had already died in prison in 1970 from an overdose of drugs. Her ordeal is the subject of Rape In The Philippines.