Philippine Daily Inquirer

Pa raped 2 girls as mom held them, cops say

Third alleged victim escaped to bare horrors

- By Julie M. Aurelio

FOR MONTHS, two teenaged girls were allegedly drugged by their father each time he raped them as their mother held their arms to prevent any struggle.

The sisters’ ordeal only ended when the father allegedly raped a third victim— a classmate of one of his daughters— who was able to escape and report the abuses to the police.

The blood- curdling picture of parenting warped by drugs and diabolic lust emerged with the father’s arrest on Thursday in Quezon City.

Supt. Crisostomo Mendoza of the Novaliches police substation said the sisters, aged 14 and 16, were allegedly forced by their 33-year-old father to take “shabu” before they were raped.

The suspect’s 35- year- old live- in partner, the girls’ mother, allegedly helped her man perpetrate the crime by firmly holding the girls in place as they were being ravished.

Mendoza said the father had been subjected to inquest proceeding­s for rape as of yesterday, with no bail recommende­d. The mother, who also faces charges, remained at large.

The alleged rapes began last year, Mendoza said.

Before dawn on Thursday, a 15-year-old classmate of one of the girls went to the latter’s house in Barangay Nagkaisang Nayon and fell also prey to the suspect.

Based on the third victim’s account, she and the two daughters were allegedly drugged by the suspect that day, at around 1 a.m., and then were all raped.

 ?? ANDREW TADALAN ?? EARLY PICKINGS Before waterways swell in the coming rainy season, a team from the Laguna Lake Developmen­t Authority conducts a cleanup drive on a nearly dried-up creek near Quezon Avenue in Quezon City on Saturday.
ANDREW TADALAN EARLY PICKINGS Before waterways swell in the coming rainy season, a team from the Laguna Lake Developmen­t Authority conducts a cleanup drive on a nearly dried-up creek near Quezon Avenue in Quezon City on Saturday.

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