Death of Grade 6 boy: Murder, not suicide

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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Sunday, October 22, 2017
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ILOILO City – The 11-year-old Grade 6 pupil found dead in their house in Barangay Cari Minor, Leganes, Iloilo last week did not commit suicide. He was murdered, autopsy results showed.

He appeared to have been mauled to death, according to the autopsy conducted by Dr. Owen Lebaquin of the Police Regional Office 6’s (PRO-6) crime laboratory.

The boy was initially thought to have hanged himself from the ceiling of their house using a rope around his neck. An elder sister found him in that state around 6 p.m. on Oct. 10.

The autopsy, however, discovered that the boy had been hit severely by a hard object, resulting to damaged ribs.

According to Senior Inspector Dajie Delima, Leganes police chief, they already have a suspect but needed witnesses.

“After we received the results of the autopsy, we conducted a thorough investigation. The boy was murdered. He was hit by a hard object in their house then the culprit made it appear that the boy committed suicide,” said Delima.

Police investigators talked to the parents, said Delima, and managed to zero in on a suspect – a family relative living nearby.

This relative was raising ducks but some went missing and he believed the boy had something to do with it, said Delima.

The boy was last seen alive going home Tuesday noon last week. According to the mother, an itinerant vendor, he asked permission to take his lunch home.

The boy failed to report to his class at Leganes Elementary School that afternoon.

It was initially believed bullying in school drove the boy to kill himself. Two weeks prior to his death, he figured in a fistfight with a classmate who taunted him./PN
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