Reported by Kit BagaipoPublished by the Bohol ChronicleA 14-year old girl died a day after she was raped and thrown off by her attacker into a precipice 54-feet high in barangay Quinoguitan, Loboc town.
The victim was sent by her father on an errand about 6 p.m. last January 2 but never came home.
The worried parents immediately sought assistance of the Loboc PNP and a nearby Army detachment which led to the recovery of their daughter's nearly lifeless body at 2 a.m. on January 3.
The 14-year old girl, who sustained wounds to the head and neck, was rushed to the Gov. Celestino Gallares Regional Hospital.
She told her parents and police the name of her assailant which led to a manhunt operation and the capture of the suspect in Jagna town Wednesday noon. He was about to board a vessel going to Mindanao, police said.
The suspect, identified as one Joel Meligorio, 22, a native of Butuan City was a third degree cousin of the victim, according to SPO1 Eufemia Fajardo of the Loboc PNP.
Fajardo told the Chronicle that a witness gave them the clue on the suspect's identity who also left his shirt at the crime scene.
Meligorio, in an interview with the Chronicle said he was waiting for the victim to pass by a Purok waiting shed and punched her thrice to the stomach which left her unconscious.
According to the suspect's account, he brought the victim to a grassland a few meters from the waiting shed where the victim was raped.
The suspect said he went to the workers' quarters of the lumberyard where he worked after the incident leaving the still unconscious victim.
When he realized however that he left his shirt at the crime scene, he went back and saw that the victim was still unconscious.
Thinking that his victim was already dead, Meligorio rolled her into a nearby cliff which was 54-meters high, according to police.
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