BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – An angry 35-year-old father sprayed his 17-year-old daughter with gasoline and set her on fire in Barangay Mansilingan here.
The torching happened at the family’s house, said Insp. Jinky Lou Ramos, chief of the Bacolod City Police Office’s Women and Children Protection Desk.
The father was a shoe repairman.
At the police station where the father was taken, he said he did not mean to burn his daughter.
He never laid a hand on any of his children, he said.
On Friday morning, the father instructed his daughter to look after her two younger siblings because he was busy repairing a pair of shoes.
He had to finish repairing the shoes because the owner was scheduled to pick them up later in the day, said the father.
But the daughter attempted to leave the house, and this pissed him off, said the father.
He took an empty bottle of cologne spray, poured gasoline into it, then sprayed the gasoline on his daughter.
After the spraying, the father lighted a matchstick and threw it at his daughter who was itching to leave their house.
The sudden flare-up of fire brought the angry father back to his senses. He helped his daughter put out the fire.
The daughter was then rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital.
The father, on the other hand, was later brought to Police Station 7./PN
