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Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Flight leads cops to blame daughter for mom’s slay
A case of parricide has been recommended against a daughter who allegedly stabbed to death her 84-year-old mother an hour before New Year’s Day 2005 in Brgy. Pakigne, Minglanilla.
But Marcelina Villela, who is accused of stabbing her mother Ramona, could no longer be found.
The circumstances and the flight of the accused established probable cause that she was the one responsible for the death of the victim, Acting Presiding Judge Wilson Ibones said in his resolution.
Ibones, of the Municipal Trial Court of Minglanilla, recommended the filing of a parricide case against Villela before the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, even if no witness saw Marcelina stab her mother.
On New Year’s eve, Marcelina, crying either for help or of guilt, roused her neighbor Carina Diola and aunt Barbara Castro, who hurriedly checked the house she shared with her mother.
Diola and Castro both saw Ramona lying in the kitchen floor apparently soaked while Castro, Romana’s younger sister, noticed an odor she recognized as blood.
Marcelina then told Castro she will fetch a faith healer in Talamban since her mother was only sleeping. Her aunt obliged and watched over Romana.
Three hours later, Marcelina arrived and started wiping the body of her lifeless mother and Castro noticed a reddish liquid.
Castro went home and ordered the victim’s son-in-law, Marino Mimis, to help Marcelina. Mimis also noticed the blood and asked Marcelina, who said it was only nosebleed.
But when Marcelina got up, Mimis said, he peeped under the dress of Romana and saw at least four stab wounds on the chest and one in the shoulder.
Around 5 a.m. on Jan. 1, Marcelina cried out that her mother had been stabbed.
Both Mimis and Castro suspected Marcelina as the one who stabbed her mother but it was only on Jan. 13 that they filed an affidavit against her.
By the time the police subpoenaed Marcelina to answer the allegations against her, she was nowhere to be found.
Judge Ibones cited as basis in his decision the “strange behavior and actuations of the accused.” (JGA)
(July 13, 2005 issue)
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