Monday, July 02, 2007
Shorts direct police to suspect in fatal beating of Carcar boy, 11
POLICE yesterday picked up a jobless man for the brutal killing Friday of an 11-year-old boy in Sitio Kalubihan, Barangay Liburon, Carcar, Cebu.
At the police station, however, Paulo Bustamante, 30, a native of Oslob town, denied he killed Carl John Satinitigan of Sitio Lamakan, Barangay Valladolid.
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Carl John, who sold bread, was on his way home when an unidentified assailant mercilessly struck his head several times with a wooden club past 6 p.m.
The young victim used to peddle his goods in the area, earning P1 per plastic pack of bread sold or P65 a day.
His parents Carlito and Belinda, both 37, said the suspect also ran off with the boy’s earnings because only P2 was found in the child’s pocket.
Belinda, a shoe store attendant, said Carl John skipped school this year. His earnings would have been used to pay for his schooling next year as a grade five student of Liburon Elementary School.
Bustamante, a part-time carpenter, and his laundrywoman-wife Isabel rented a hut in Liburon, about 100 meters from the crime scene.
They began renting the place last January yet.
Marilou Castañares, chief tanod of Barangay Liboron, saw Bustamante with bloodstains on his shorts. When she asked him what happened and threatened to call the police, he allegedly ran. Castañares then called the police.
PO3 Reynaldo Fuentes, a homicide investigator, said the boy’s body was discovered by residents Saturday. A barangay tanod reported the discovery at 10:50 a.m.
Recovered at the scene were the boy’s plastic basket, a bicycle horn, a plastic pack of bread, a rock with blood-stains and a wooden club. Stray dogs had begun to eat the bread the boy tried to sell the day before.
Lawmen also seized Bustamante’s old, bloodstained short pants believing it was what he wore during the attack.
But Bustamante told reporters that the stains on his pants were paint drops as well as old stains from his wife’s period.
The piece of wood and the shorts were taken to the Regional Crime Laboratory for analysis.
Fuentes said that Bustamante was being held temporarily in their custody pending the issuance of the witnesses’ affidavits. (GC/With MEA)
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