Rape-slay victim’s dad wants death penalty restored
Saturday, November 12, 2011
CATARMAN, Northern Samar -- The father of the minor, who was raped and
killed near her school in Catarman, Northern Samar, wants a death sentence for
the suspect.
In an exclusive interview, Ruben Mangada, father of the 14-year-old
minor, called on the government to restore death penalty for perpetrators of
heinous crimes.
He said criminals like the one who sexually abused, strangled and hacked
her daughter to death on November 8 have no right to live.
“I want the death sentence to be restored what they did to my daughter
was not a doing of a normal man, but of the devil. The criminal should be
hanged; he must not be given a chance to reproduce. He will only breed
criminals like him,” the father said in
vernacular.
Last November 8, the victim was found dead under the coconut trees, some
hundred meters away from the Catarman National High School (CNHS) where she was
a third year student.
Results of the autopsy conducted on the victim by Police Superintendent
Pierre Paul Carpio of the Police Crime Laboratory Office showed that the victim
was hacked several times on the head, neck and left ankle.
It was confirmed that the victim was raped.
The Catarman Police already arrested the suspect, a 21-year-old former
drugstore helper, Jayson Maravilla, through a hot pursuit operation.
Maravilla was allegedly seen by two witnesses carrying a bolo and
walking from the crime scene.
Police Officer 2 Leo Magpayo said Maravilla has already admitted of
committing the crime a day after his arrest.
However, the suspect’s “confession” was told to a civilian and was not
made under oath reason why the police had to call for a lawyer, Attorney
Bernabe Figueroa, to assist the suspect in making his extrajudicial confession.
But after a “one-on-one talk” with his lawyer, Maravilla refused to make
any confession before the police.
“He changed his mind and did not want to confess, he said he was just
pressured by the civilian visitor who was able to enter his cell,” Figueroa
said.
On Wednesday night, Magpayo submitted the charges of “rape with
homicide” for inquest proceedings before Provincial Prosecutor Rosario
Diaz.
The victim was the eldest of four children. Her father is a pedicab
driver while her mother is a laundrywoman.
Her mother, “Inday”, expressed too much grief for the loss of her
daughter.
She described her daughter as a good child and obedient child, and very
caring of her siblings. She could not imagine, she said, how their family could
cope with life now that her eldest daughter is gone. (Leyte Samar Daily Express)
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