PRO 7 cop faces abuse case

A POLICEMAN assigned at the Regional Police Office 7 is facing a criminal complaint for allegedly sexually and physically abusing his wife.

No less than the wife of the police officer filed the complaint before the Office of the Cebu Provincial Prosecutor accusing her husband of violating Republic Act 9262, or the Anti-Violence against Women and Children Act of 2002.

“After our marriage, I have been sexually abused, harassed and subjected to physical harm,” read the wife’s complaint-affidavit.

( Sun.Star Cebu is withholding the name of the police officer to protect the complainant’s identity). The wife sued her husband on Feb. 9, or five days before Valentine’s Day. They got married on May 17, 2003.

Incidents

In her affidavit, the wife, from Liloan town, Cebu, recalled that she and her son were in a mall sometime in 2010 and bought some groceries.

She called her husband, but the policeman’s mobile phone could not be reached. So they went to a fast food chain and ate.

When the policeman arrived, the wife said her husband hit the back of her head, which made her feel dizzy.

“I just bore (the pain) despite the maltreatment knowing fully well my husband is hot-tempered and does not accept any reasoning,” the wife said in her affidavit.

In May 2014, the wife said, her husband hit their son with a belt. When she tried to intervene, the policeman also hit her with the belt, which caused her to almost lose her consciousness.

Assistance

In September 2014, the wife said, she sought assistance of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Mandaue City for a discussion with her husband supposedly for a family counseling.

But the police officer did not show up and told the agency’s social worker that they could not intervene in what he described as a “simple lover’s quarrel.” The policeman allegedly verbally and physically abused their son on various occasions, the wife said.

“My son is a recipient of spanking and thrown to bed or the sofa in times of anger. The traumatic experience has ill effects on the child, who can’t speak well and needs a psychiatrist examination for the purpose,” the wife said.

The couple’s house help also executed an affidavit corroborating the statement of the wife in her affidavit.