Maniac driver on the loose

A sex maniac may be driving around in the capital town in his tricycle, prowling for young victims to satisfy his deviant urges.

This question is being asked following a mother's complaint to Virac police authorities that a tricycle driver lured her daughter to a secluded area the other week and sexually abused her.

According to the 24-year old mother from San Isidro Village, her 11-year old daughter, a Grade 3 pupil at a nearby elementary school, was waiting for a ride in front of the Mormon Church at about 12 noon of November 17 when a tricycle driven by an unidentified man approached and offered to take her to school.

On their way, the man suddenly said he would pick up another passenger and turned right into the road leading to the Virac airport. The tricycle did not stop until it reached a secluded area of Imperial Homes Subdivision where he told her he will just urinate.

The maniac positioned himself right at the entrance to the sidecar where the helpless girl was trapped and proceeded to relieve himself. After finishing, the man asked her to hand over a rag kept at the sidecar's roof and told her to hold his sex organ and rub it using the rag.

The girl then she would just fetch a classmate and then ran away, hiding at a grassy area and then walking until she emerged near the Bogtong funeral parlor where she took another ride to school. She told her mother that while she was hiding, she saw that the tricycle bore the number "2205" at the back.

A check with the municipal licensing office showed that the number has yet to be assigned to any tricycle as the latest number issued to a tricycle franchise was 1888. Police are still investigating the case.

In a related development, a five-year old girl on an errand was waylaid by a laborer and allegedly raped in a Viga barangay the other Monday.

Police said the girl was on her way home from an errand at about 7 A.M. of Nov. 20 in sitio Ora, barangay San Jose (Oco) when her path was blocked by suspect Arnulfo Tuno y Herder, 42, single and a resident of the barangay.

The suspect allegedly whipped and bribed her into lying on the ground where she was sexually abused. Tuno was immediately arrested by police after receiving the complaint while the victim was examined by the Viga Rural Health Unit.