Boy, 11, accused of raping girl, 7

An 11-year-old boy has been accused of raping a seven-year-old girl, who is a Grade 1 pupil of an elementary school at barangay Guiwanon in Ginatilan the other day.

Ginatilan Police investigator, SPO2 Arnold Umana, said the boy confessed that he had sex with the girl but insisted that he was just forced to do it allegedly with the consent of the “victim.”

The boy narrated that he was playing basketball at the time when the victim approached him and asked if he could have sex with her. He alleged that while they were conversing, she dragged him into the nearby bushes.

“Pag-abot nila sa kalibunan, mihigda man daw ang babaye unya iyang giingnan ang lalake nga pag-hubo. Ang babaye man daw ang nanghagad,” Umana recounted the boy’s story during the investigation.

The boy is actually a resident of barangay Candis in Badian but he and his have been in Guinatilan to earn a living by farming.

The alleged rape incident was reported to the police by the girl’s mother, who accompanied her to the police station to file a complaint of rape against the boy.

The mother told the police that her daughter went home very tired but did not say anything about sexual molestation of anything of that sort. The mother found something was wrong only when the girl complained to the mother that she felt an unbearable pain in her genital area when she urinated.

The mother immediately inspected the organ of her daughter and found blood stain in her underwear and vagina. This prompted her to go to the police to report that her girl was raped.

The case has been endorsed to the Department of Social Welfare and Development, and the victim, who the police said was still in a state of shock, will undergo medical examination.

Responding policemen caught the boy, investigated him, and put him in custody of the Ginatilan Police. — Garry B. Lao/RAE