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Dear PAO,
My cousin had a feud with his neighbor, X. On a few occasions, X had spoken ill of my cousin in front of their other neighbors, which prejudiced my cousin's reputation in their community. The last incident transpired sometime in May of last year. However, my cousin was not able to file a complaint for slander because he had to go back to our province to take care of his father, who, at the time, was hospitalized. Now that he has moved back to his apartment and seen X again, he is thinking of pursuing his complaint. But a barangay officer told him that he could no longer file his complaint because it had been almost sixteen months since the incident happened. Is this true?
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