Twin fetuses found floating in Pulangbato river

CEBU, Philippines - The rise in cases involving dead fetuses found in Cebu City has prompted the city council to approve a resolution urging law enforcement agencies and residents’ active participation in identifying persons who cause deliberate abortion in all forms.

Authored by Councilor Edgardo Labella, the resolution reminds all barangay officials of the city’s “pro-life stance” and reiterates to the public that abortion remains a criminal act.

Taking into consideration that Cebu City is the center of Catholicism in the south, Labella’s resolution reminds everyone to revisit moral beliefs which “discourage indiscriminate sex among the youth and those which upholds the sanctity and protection of life.”

But even with the approval of the resolution, two dead fetuses were found floating in a river in one of the mountain barangays of Cebu City on Wednesday evening.

Amparo Legaspi, 55, of Sitio Dita, Barangay Pulangbato, Cebu City was about to cross the Butuanon River at around 1 o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesday when she noticed two suspicious objects floating on the river.

Curious, Legaspi approached them and later discovered two dead fetuses.

She immediately sought help from the Pulangbato Barangay Hall and the barangay midwife, Erlinda Gualisa, who estimated that the twin fetuses are about 6 to 7 months old.

Barangay officials then called the Cebu City Police Office homicide section and brought the twins to San Fernando Funeral Homes.

Investigators believe that the two fetuses were thrown into the river by people who are not resident of the said barangay but just dropped by to dispose of the twins. 

The twins are added up to the rising number of fetuses believed to be victims of abortion in Cebu City since after two other reported incidents of dead fetus found in Barangay Camputhaw and at the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill in the last two weeks.  (FREEMAN)