Monday, January 05, 2009 (Philippines)

Neighbors gather outside the home of Maria Jocelyn Mendoza (inset) in Sitio Fatima, Cabancalan in Mandaue City, where a man stabbed her to death. Her three daughters were unharmed. (Allan Cuizon) A WOMAN was stabbed dead inside her house in what authorities believe was a robbery witnessed in part by her eight-year-old daughter in Barangay Cabancalan, Mandaue City yesterday morning. The girl did not see the actual attack on her mother, but saw the culprit climb to the second floor and ransack her parents’ room. Maria Jocelyn Mendo-za, 40, was killed on the ground floor of the house around 6 a.m., when her neighbors were still asleep. [full story]