Man slams child's head on a tree

CEBU, Philippines - A 13-year-old boy filed a complaint of child abuse against his 21-year-old neighbor who allegedly banged his head several times on a tree trunk when the latter was not allowed to join a basketball game last March 2, 2011.

Meanwhile, a teenage girl was injured in the head after she was stabbed with a pair of scissors by a fellow teenager whom she had an argument with inside a restaurant in Barangay Lahug, Cebu City yesterday morning.

The 13-year-old said that while he and two of his minor friends were playing basketball along Arellano Boulevard in Cebu City, suspect Mario Salazar approached them, wanting to join the game.

They refused Salazar because he is bigger than all of them. Salazar reportedly got angry and asked for an empty jute sack to cover the basketball ring.

According to the complainant in his affidavit, when he  was about to shoot at the ring covered with sack, Salazar held his head and banged it several times on the trunk of a nearby tree.

After that, the suspect picked up the complainant’s slippers and placed these on the basketball ring. Aside from this, Salazar also forcefully threw the ball at him, hitting his head thrice.

The minor also said Salazar punched him in the face before he managed to run away. He reported the matter to the Waterfront Police Station.

The suspect was then arrested.

Prosecutor I Gandhi Truya recommended a bail of P80,000 for Salazar as the information indicting him of the crime charged was filed.

In a separate incident, a teenage girl was injured in the head after another teenager stabbed her with a pair of scissors.

Jezza Amancio, 18, of Gonzales Compound, Barangay Camputhaw and a native of Tuburan town, sustained two stab wounds on her head after an argument with Hazel Parino, 19, of Maribago, Mactan.

According to Amancio, she and her friends were with a Korean visitor inside a Korean restaurant along Salinas Drive around 6 a.m. to have a meal.

They were taking their seats when the suspect, who was with another group of women with another Korean visitor sitting on the other table, told them, “O, nandito na ang mga tiyanak.”

This irked Amancio who tangled in an argument with the other group. What was initially a verbal tussle turned into a physical fight. The suspect got hold of a pair of scissors from the restaurant and struck the victim’s head twice.

Amancio was taken to the Perpetual Soccour Hospital where she is now recuperating. The suspect was arrested by the responding Mobile Patrol Group.

PO3 Michael Codaste of the Homicide Section said the suspect, who does not know the victim at all, blurted out those words just to mock or tease Amancio and her companions.  (FREEMAN)