LAOAG CITY – The 15-year-old Laoag girl who was stabbed 26 times by suspected drug addicts recently was buried last Saturday with her family at a loss if they could get justice for her.
This developed as Fernando Marcos, father of the victim, Imee Leah, said the planned autopsy of her body before her burial at the Aglipayan cemetery here did not materialize.
The other victim in the killing, Christine Joy Barroga, 18, was buried last Wednesday. She sustained six stab wounds.
Marcos told The STAR that four police investigators visited him last week and asked him if he would agree to an autopsy, to which he gave his approval.
“Diak ammo no apay (I don’t know why the autopsy was not held),” he said, adding that he is not aware of the progress of the investigation.
Barroga’s parents, on the other hand, reportedly did not agree to their daughter’s autopsy.
The two teenagers were found dead on the banks of Padsan River in Barangays Uno and La Paz last Aug. 2.
A witness told investigators that he saw them in the company of a group having fun along the riverbank in Barangay Uno the night before their bodies were found.
Broken bottles of a local gin brand were found at the crime scene, along with a trail of blood from a dike to the riverbank.
Police picked up four young men for questioning but later released them.
Senior Superintendent Sterling Blanco, Laoag police chief, refused to identify the four men pending investigation.