2 suspects in salvage try vs pregnant woman freed on bail

LAGUNA, Philippines – The two Rizal lawmen tagged behind the ‘salvage’ try on a four-month pregnant woman, a police informant and a witness in an extortion case against them, have been set free after they posted a P210,000 bail each for their temporary liberty.

Senior Inspector Luis Perez, Pagsanjan town police chief, said in a phone interview, that PO2 Mario Natividad and PO1 Antenor Mariquit, both assigned to the Cainta, Rizal police, were freed on bail after Judge Jaime Blancaflor, of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 26, Pagsanjan, issued the release order.

Perez said the two policemen accompanied by their lawyer and relatives were released at the Pagsanjan municipal jail on Tuesday morning. They were facing criminal charges for abduction with frustrated murder of a 22-year-old victim, who suffered 24 stab wounds and was left for dead in a ravine in Pagsanjan, Laguna.

Perez told The STAR, the investigator-on-case have also filed unintentional abortion charges against the two cops after the victim’s unborn baby died on Monday.

He said that the victim who was recovering from 24 stab wounds and a gunshot wound in the right thigh, suffered miscarriage in a Laguna hospital.

According to the town police chief the victim worked as an “asset” of Mariquit and Natividad, but the lawmen got reports that the victim would testify against them.

The two lawmen and an asset allegedly snatched her in Angono, Rizal last week, gagged and tied her and repeatedly stabbed and shot her before dumping her in a ravine in Pagsanjan town.      

But she managed to untie herself using a shard of glass and climbed her way up the cliff where residents spotted her and rushed her to the hospital.