Friday, August 17, 2007
Woman held for husband’s death
A WOMAN was held for questioning along with her son at the Minglanilla Police Station last Wednesday following the death of her husband days before.
Juliet Cantiveros Oberes, 38, said she and her 15-year-old son Carlo had been arguing with her husband, Edwin, in their house in Sitio South Boundary, Barangay Tungkop Sunday night because he was drunk.
She said Edwin, in a drunken fit, raised an elongated object to strike Carlo.
Edwin hit the fluorescent lamp, instead, shattering it. The shards from the lamp reportedly landed on his right shoulder, causing it to bleed.
Juliet and Carlo said they rushed him to the Minglanilla District Hospital but he was declared dead on arrival.
SPO3 Remigio Elacion said that after doctors declared him dead, he was sent straight to the morgue and eventually to a
funeral home.
At his wake, however, Edwin’s mother found it unbelievable that shards from a fluorescent lamp were enough to kill her son.
Last Wednesday, she went to the police station and informed them of her son’s death as it had not been reported to the police station.
Elacion said that when they asked Juliet if they could have an autopsy performed on her husband, she initially refused, saying that as the wife, she had the right to decline. She said she did not want the body to be moved because it was already in a casket.
However, they explained to her that Edwin’s mother had a request and she finally relented.
Police were surprised when they saw the autopsy report.
They learned that Edwin died of a stab wound near his collarbone and not of blood loss from his bleeding shoulder.
Juliet denied killing her husband, saying the fluorescent lamp caused him to bleed and that everything was an accident.
Police said they looked for a knife that would have been used but they could not find any in their house. Elacion also said that none of the lights in their house seemed busted.
When they asked her to produce the clothes Edwin wore during the accident, Juliet claimed they already burned them.
Elacion said that if Juliet and her son do not admit to the crime, they will still file a parricide case against them based on the autopsy report. (MEA)
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