PRESIDENT DUTERTE, DSWD OFFER HELP FOR FAMILY OF BABY RAPED IN CARCAR

After she is released from a government hospital where she underwent surgery, the fourmonth-old baby from Carcar City who was raped, allegedly by a neighbor, will be sheltered by the Department of Social Welfare and Development, along with her mother and two sisters. In the meantime, President Rodrigo Duterte sent the family P10,000 cash through Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Lloyd Dino. Complaints for rape and violations of the law against child abuse are being prepared against a 40-year-old man, Jonathan Marfe, whom the police arrested Friday on the basis of accounts from his drinking buddies.

partment of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 7.

They will take temporary shelter there while other interventions will be done to them, Gonzales said.

DSWD 7 will also send a social worker to Carcar City today to assess the condition of the baby’s siblings.

Dino has directed the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 7 to intensify their efforts against illegal drugs in Carcar City.

Last Thursday, the baby was found bloodied and naked 30 meters from her home by a 60-yearold woman who went outside to pee at 1 a.m.

The Carcar City Police arrested the suspect who was identified as Jonathan Marfe, a 40-year-old native of Bohol who was also involved in a rape case in the past. President Rodrigo Duterte gave money to the family of the fourmonth-old baby girl who was sexually abused in Barangay Perrelos, Carcar City, Cebu.

Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Lloyd Dino visited the baby who was confined at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center yesterday morning.

Dino handed to the mother P10,000 cash from the president.

Dino was accompanied by Girlie Veloso, barangay councilor of Perrelos, Carcar, who inquired from the attending physicians about baby’s condition.

In the afternoon, the baby was released from the hospital after she underwent a minor surgery for a minor laceration in her genitals.

Jonji Gonzales, chief of staff of Dino, said the baby, her mother and two sisters will be brought to the residential center of the De-