ICEBU CITY, Philippines–An 11-year-old girl stabbed her father
dead Sunday night after she saw him hitting her mother on the head and
cutting her leg with a hacksaw inside their house in Argao town, 58 km
south of this city, the authorities said.
The 38-year-old father was
found dead on a vacant grassy lot a few minutes after he ran away from
his daughter who stabbed him in the chest at about 11 p.m. inside their
house in Barangay Canbanua, Argao.
The police took custody of the
girl who was later turned over to the Department of Social Welfare and
Development, said Insp. Alan Batobalunos, Argao police chief.
Batobalunos
said the girl didn’t know that she killed her father. “Napatay nako si
Papa ma? Mapriso ko (I killed papa, ma? Would I go to jail?” Batobalunos
quoted the girl as asking her mother.
But he added the girl
didn’t cry but instead told the police that they would not know what
would happen to her and her two sisters if their mother was killed.
Their
neighbor Miguel Tapales said they heard the couple arguing past 11 p.m.
on Sunday. He said he just ignored it because they thought it was just
one of the couple’s usual fights.
After several minutes, Tapales said the 11-year–old girl went to their house and asked for help.
“She
asked for help because she feared that her father might come back and
kill them. She said she stabbed her father after she saw that her father
was cutting her mother’s leg with a hacksaw,” said Tapales in Cebuano.
Her mother was later brought to Isidro Kintanar Memorial Hospital in Argao and was released on Monday morning.
Perlita
Buenaflor, another neighbor said they would always hear the couple
quarreling. On Friday, the husband destroyed the wall of their house in
the middle of the fight.
Buenaflor said the arguments were triggered by jealousy because the victim was allegedly a womanizer.
Batobalunos
and the couple’s neighbors said the victim was fired from his job as a
driver of a Department of Environment and Natural Resources personnel
after he had an affair with a married office mate.
He then worked at the Office of the Mayor in Argao but lost his job again when he had a fling with another office mate.
Aside from the 11-year-old girl, the couple has two other daughters–a 13-year-old Grade 6 pupil and a two-month old infant.
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