Friday, November 02, 2007 Boy says he saw killer of teen in Toledo City
TOLEDO CITY - A 12-year-old boy was placed under the custody of the social welfare office after he told authorities that he saw the persons who killed a 17-year-old girl last Wednesday.
The boy had P6,800 in his pant’s pockets when the police frisked him.
He approached the policemen who were investigating the crime scene a few hours after Kenneth S. Dicdican’s body was found dead.
Mercy Seno, Dicdican’s mother, said her daughter had just withdrawn a huge amount of money from the bank a day before she was bludgeoned to death in a vacant lot in Barangay Sangi.
The teenage girl resided in the neighboring Barangay Luray 2. She left a six-month-old baby. Her boyfriend, a seaman, was sending money for her school tuition.
Dicdican’s body was found last Wednesday morning. A bloodstained rock was beside her.
She may have been raped because she was without her bra and the buttons of her pants were opened. She also had a coin purse and a wallet inside a bag, but the first two items were missing.
The boy told the police at the crime scene that he saw the men who carried out the killing.
He also had a wound on his face and bruises on his body.
The police took the boy to the precinct for questioning.
The boy said that he saw Dicdican walking alone around 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Three men then approached her and took her to the vacant lot. The boy followed, but one of the men saw him. This man, the boy said, beat him up but he was able to run away.
During the investigation, the police found P800 in one of the boy’s pockets. He said it was his. When the police checked another pocket of his short pants, P6,000 was found.
The boy said he found the money in the toilet of a building near the vacant lot. He went back to the scene last Wednesday morning.
The police, though, became suspicious so they put the boy under the custody of the social welfare office.
Initial investigation showed that Dicdican was seen earlier that Tuesday night with a man inside a videoke bar owned by her mother in Barangay Poblacion. The two left. Dicdican’s mother did not know where they went.
Dicdican returned to the bar around 1 a.m. and told her mother that she was going home.
The man Dicdican was seen earlier with in the bar came back but he missed the girl.
He even called Dicdican on the cell phone but she could no longer be reached. (Ariel Mercado, Superbalita correspondent)
