Street sweeper held for killing woman, baby

A street sweeper was arrested for raping and killing a woman and her daughter while under the influence of alcohol and drugs in Valenzuela City on Saturday.

The inclement weather that flooded the city during the weekend did not stop Lofferian Dupilas, 21, who admitted to taking drugs, from raping his neighbor 22-year-old Jolina Calpito and then stabbing dead her one-yearold daughter Ayesha Glee in their house in Barangay Ugong.

Valenzuela police chief investigator Senior Inspector Joey Hizon said the suspect was under the influence of alcohol and illegal drugs the night before he committed the crime.

He also stole a tablet and two cell phones from two of his neighbors before entering the victim’s house and then raping Calpito, who bore nine stab wounds. The baby was also stabbed three times in the chest.

Dupilas was arrested after his relatives reported him to the police that he went home with blood stains on his shirt. Police recovered the knife used in the killing.

Dupilas, in an interview with admitted to committing the crime under the influence of drugs, but denied stabbing the baby intentionally.

“I blacked out. I’m asking for forgiveness from the family,” Dupilas said of the victims, who were survived by the patriarch Alvin Salao.

In Pasay City, a 48-year-old jobless man was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping two of his wife’s relatives.

The man was arrested after parents of his wife’s 14-year-old relative filed a complaint against him before the police, Southern Police District spokesperson Superintendent Jenny Tecson said.

The suspect allegedly repeatedly raped the 14-year-old girl since she was 11 or some time in 2015. The girl’s parents found out about the assaults on Aug. 10, when she suffered a miscarriage.

A digital camera containing sex videos of the suspect and the girl’s 12-year-old sister was confiscated from him.