Police bury man killed by daughter

CEBU, Philippines - The father who was killed by his 11-year-old daughter in Barangay Canbanua, Argao last Sunday was buried 14 hours after the incident at the town’s public cemetery.

Nobody attended to his body at the morgue of the Isidro C. Kintanar Memorial Hospital that prompted the police to call the attention of his live-in partner.

Insp. Alejandro Batobalonos, Argao police chief, said he also called the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (MSWDO) to assist the family in burying the father’s body.

“Gilangaw gyud sa ospital kay wala ra gyud ang mga igsuon, iyaan ug uyuan. Ang lawas nagtubig na og sugod,” Batobalonos said in a phone interview. (His relatives didn’t care. His body has started decomposing.)

After the police asked the relatives to attend to the father’s body, his relatives called his father who is working abroad.

He reportedly told them to just bury the body immediately.

He was taken to Tupas Funeral Homes and was buried at 4:00p.m. yesterday.

Batobalonos said the mother and the children, aged 13 and 11, are undergoing stress debriefing and counseling at the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-7.

The 11-year-old girl stabbed her father dead when she saw him trying to amputate the left leg of her mother inside their house Sunday evening.

Her parents were fighting over her father’s alleged illicit affair. The father struck the head of the mother with a wood that caused her to collapse. He sat on her and tried to cut her leg with a saw.

In order to save her mother, the girl took the knife she kept behind their cabinet and stab his father in the chest.

He ran out of the house but collapsed in a grassy lot about 100 meters away.

Meanwhile, Maria Fe Caiwan, class adviser of the 11-year-old, warned parents that too much exposure to television programs could influence children’s behavior because they will tend to imitate what they see.

“Makaapekto ang salida without parents’ guidance unya they spend most of their time watching,” she said. (FREEMAN)