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, Philippines
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.
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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 officemate.
He then worked at the Office of the Mayor in Argao but lost his job again when he had a fling with another officemate.
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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