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Child
rape cases
shock
Virac cops
Recent
rape cases are putting Virac police authorities
in a quandary: two of the victims were less than
nine years old and were abused by either a
brother or their playmates while one case had a
50-year old man allegedly raping his younger
sister on Valentine's Day.
Sources
say that last December, a seven-year old girl
was playing house with his brother, 13, in their
house in a coastal barangay while their father
was out fishing and their mother was doing the
laundry of a local church, when the unthinkable
happened. Like they were playing mom and dad for
real, the boy allegedly had sex with his young
sister.
The
incident came to the mother's knowledge when the
victim quarreled with her 6-year old sister, who
threatened to tell the mother that the victim
was abused by their `manoy.' A source said the
boy, who was reportedly so innocent-looking as
no one would think he did the despicable act,
probably saw the sexual act either on video or
at home.
In
another case that occurred the first week of
January, an 8-year old girl was lured to a
coconut plantation in Virac poblacion by three
of her playmates, one of which successfully
raped her.
The
victim, a Grade 2 pupil at a nearby elementary
school, was forced to confess the incident when
a girl playmate with whom she quarreled with
revealed all to her aghast mother. She said she
was asked by three boys, two of whom are
students of a local high school while the other
is an elementary grades pupil, to come with them
in picking coconuts at a nearby public land.
When
they came to the coconut grove, one boy
nicknamed Tong allegedly asked her to remove her
shorts, laid her down on the ground and
proceeded to have sex with the girl. After Tong
finished, a second boy followed but was not able
to complete the act after his shorts got in the
way while the third allegedly masturbated while
watching nearby.
In
the third incident, the 44-year old married
woman told police probers that she was sexually
abused by her brother, Antonio Guerrero y Panti,
50, married, last Feb. 14 at about 5 P.M. inside
the family residence in Palta Small.
A
police source told the Tribune that the woman
claimed that she shared a bottle of gin with her
brother that afternoon and then slept at a
nearby hut. She was awakened later by her
brother, who asked her to drink a bottle of
Fundador with him. When she felt sleepy, she
retired to the bedroom. She claimed she came to
know she was raped when she was roused by her
brother's act of slipping her panties back on
her.
Guerrero
reportedly denied the rape, saying that the act
was consensual. He said they went into the
bedroom together, his arms around her shoulders,
with her sister allegedly saying that it was
alright for him to have sex with her as long as
it would not be repeated.
The
source said the suspect's wife is in Manila
while the sister's husband, with whom she has
children, is in Camarines Sur. Both live under
the same roof.
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