Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Parricide case filed v. Sibonga mother
The sworn statements of a nine-year-old boy and his uncle led to the filing of a parricide case against the mother who allegedly killed her five-year-old son in Sibonga town, Cebu last Friday night.
A frustrated parricide case for the wounding of Sotera Suerte’s five-month-old daughter will follow.
The nine-year-old boy said he saw his mother rouse his younger brother, Razel, from sleep and ordered him to sit on the floor. His mother then went to the kitchen, got a knife and poked this at his younger brother’s throat.
He said that as he ran out of the house to get help from his uncle, Alejandro Rondenas, he heard his younger brother scream.
Razel’s throat was slit. He died on the spot.
Razel was Suerte’s third child.
Rondenas, for his part, said he saw his sister, Suerte, standing outside the door holding a knife when he arrived.
He talked with Suerte, 28, before he grappled for possession of the stainless steel knife.
Suerte, who is now detained at the Sibonga Police Station, has told police that she was at her wits end trying to find ways to feed her children. She and her husband are unemployed.
Chief investigator SPO1 Cesar Gutang Jr. said a separate case of frustrated parricide will be filed against Suerte for the attack on her five-month-old daughter.
Relatives rushed the baby to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City, after her mother tried to slash her neck.
Doctors have declared her out of danger.
“She (Suerte) had a nervous breakdown. She has not slept or eaten,” PO3 Ethyl Teves, of the women and children’s desk of Sibonga police, said over ABS-CBN TV Patrol.
In the same TV report, Suerte said she did not know that she killed Razel and had tried to kill her daugther.
“I was not in the right frame of mind that night,” she said.
Rondenas, in his sworn statement, said their neighbors led by Barangay Captain Celso Maravilles came and helped him subdue his sister. (AIV)
(October 11, 2005 issue)
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