VOL. 8 ISSUE 224 • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2016
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SPECIAL DELICACY. A Chinese store staff member fixes a display of special tikoy in one of the shopping arcades along R. Magsaysay Avenue four days before the celebration Chinese New Year. Tikoy symbolizes family unity because of its stickiness and enjoys brisk sales during this time of the year. Lean Daval Jr.
3 MEN FACE MURDER RAPS Victim wasn’t raped, but suspects charged for murder By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
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HE autopsy on the 17-year-old girl whose dead body was found in Barangay Tawan-Tawan, Baguio District in Davao City on Monday showed that she had not been raped as earlier suspected. Because of this, the Baguio Police Station has set aside the rape charges against the three men who were arrest-
ed on Wednesday morning for the crime. In a telephone interview yesterday with EDGE Davao, Davao City Police Office (DCPO) spokesperson Chief Inspector Milgrace C. Driz said police only filed murder charges against the suspects on Wednesday afternoon through inquest proceedings. The suspects have been
identified as Rufino Lamonay, 21; Roldan L. Anie, 27; and Dindo L. Anie, 26. The three were arrested two days after the body of the victim, Emma Joy Lorinton, was found after witnesses identified them. “Gi-set aside ang kaso na rape sa bata kay sa autopsy report walay indications, intact ang hymen and ni lacera-
tions kay wala (The rape case was set aside because the autopsy report showed no indication that she was raped. The hymen was still intact no laceration was found),” she said. Driz said the autopsy report said that the victim was negative for genital injury as well as presence of sperma-
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