Man confesses to brutal rape-slay of lady cashier
Panglao, Bohol – Drugs was believed the cause a security guard brutally murdered after raping a young lady cashier of a resort here.
The life of a young woman working as cashier in a beach resort ends at the hands of a drug-crazed man during the wee hours of Friday morning in barangay Danao, Panglao.
The lifeless half-naked body of 20-year old Josephine Micla Satore, who worked as a bar cashier in Bohol Divers Resort, bore multiple stab wounds and bruises from repeated beating while her eyes were poked with barbecue stick as tree branches were jabbed in her mouth and genitals.
Erwin Escomo, 22, a native of North Cotabato and a security guard of Godswill Security Agency deployed at the said resort, confessed to the brutal crime after police nabbed him Friday morning following tips from witnesses who said they last saw the victim with the suspect.
Escomo told police investigators he and the victim were on their way back to the resort at around 4 a.m. from a party with friends at a disco bar in barangay Tawala, Panglao when he dragged Satore to a secluded area just a few meters from the resort entrance gate and carried out the brutal crime.
The suspect, now detained in Camp Dagohoy this city, disclosed that the victim asked to go with him back to the resort after the disco with friends and fellow employees of Bohol Divers.
The two took a habal-habal (motorcycle for hire) and got off at the road intersection going to the resort and proceeded to go on foot.
Based on the suspect’s account, who admitted he was high on drugs having two “pot sessions†with friends that day, while he and Satore were walking he asked the latter to have sex with him but the latter refused.
After repeatedly rebuffing his advances, the suspect said he punched Satore in her stomach, briefly lending her unconscious allowing him to drag her to a grassy spot off the road.
According to Escomo, after succeeding with his carnal desire, he decided to kill Satore so she could not talk about the crime and planned of running away to Mindanao.
However, as Escomo was about to flee, police came to arrest him around 8 a.m. Friday after witnesses told them they last saw the victim with the security guard.
Escomo admitted he had long befriended the victim since they were working together at the resort which could be the reason she trusted him to accompany her back to the resort that early dawn.
The suspect disclosed that he shoved a tree branch into the mouth of the victim to restrain her from shouting and he likewise smashed a rock into her head several times, poked her eyes with sticks and thrust another branch into her genitalia.
The victim, naked from the waist-down, was found by nearby residents around 5:30 a.m. who alerted the Panglao police.
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