‘KIDNAP ME’ STUDENT MAY FACE CHARGES

No bruises or wounds were found by the police to indicate that the student was beaten by her supposed kidnappers

Police investigators learned that a 21-year-old college student took selfies after she alerted her relatives to her supposed abduction last Monday morning.

Chief Insp. Jacinto Mandal, Carbon Police Station commander, said the working student had made up her story that she was forced by three foreigners and two locals to go with them inside a black van on Leon Kilat St. in Cebu City.

He said they found no bruises and wounds on the woman’s body, signifying there were no persons who harmed her.

The student admitted she lost the P4,000 cash entrusted to her by a college dean, which had come from students who paid for their books. She claimed that the money went missing after she kept it in a school locker.

The student told the police that she was pressured by the dean to produce the money.

“Ang biktima gyod mismo ang nagtext-text sa iyang igsuon,” said Mandal. “Iyang gi-mislead ang kapulisan aron matagoan niya ang iyang problema mahitungod sa kuwarta nga iyang nagamit.”

Police Regional Office 7 Director Jose Mario Espino said he will support if the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) will decide to press charges against the student.

“If there is a violation, it would be proper that the police will file charges,” he said.

For his part, Mandal said they will consult CCPO’s legal officers on what specific complaints they could file against the woman, an education major.

The black van with license plate PMQ-128 used by the fictional abductors is registered in Metro Manila.

Mandal said the charges that will be filed against the student will serve as a reminder to the public not to make up false stories.

He said the student was not detained. She was turned over to her family, who arrived from Hilongos, Leyte, after she was found in Sitio Pamutungan, Barangay Jubay, Liloan, Cebu at 8:20 p.m. last Monday, or 15 hours after her reported kidnapping.

Nenita Wagas found the woman, whose wrists were tied up with a cord of a cellphone charger, in the vicinity in Pamutungan.

Mandal said the student apologized to the police and her family.

He said that classmates described the woman as a loner.

Mandal, who observed something wrong with the student, suggested to the family to let the student undergo counseling and psychiatric evaluations.

Espino assured the public there are no kidnap-for-ransom groups operating in Cebu and other provinces in Central Visayas.