A police officer checks on the crime scene in Barangay Magsaysay, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental, where a 17-year-old girl was found naked and dead in a sugarcane field Monday. (Photo courtesy of Cadiz City Police Station)
AUTHORITIES arrested a 62-year-old man, who was tagged in the brutal killing of a senior high school student in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental over the weekend.
Police Lieutenant Colonel John Joel Batusbatusan, city police chief, identified the suspect as Federico Delfin Jr.
Delfin was arrested in Barangay Tampalon, Kabankalan City after the victim’s family told the police that the suspect had a family there.
Batusbatusan, who was the former police chief in Kabankalan City, then tapped the Kabankalan City Police Station to help monitor the suspect until he was sighted in Barangay Tampalon and was arrested around 5:50 a.m.
He said that officials of Barangay Magsaysay in Cadiz City also helped locate the whereabouts of the suspect, who is the father of the victim’s stepfather.
The suspect was transported back to Cadiz City for the filing of rape with homicide charges.
Batusbatusan said the suspect was identified based on the circumstantial evidence and witnesses, according to a post by Daily Guardian.
The 17-year-old victim, whose name was withheld, was last seen alive last Sunday.
She was then found naked and lifeless the following day, with a slash wound in the neck.
Her left ear was cut, and her fingers on both hands were chopped, according to Batusbatusan.
The victim also had other injuries on the body, an indication that the victim struggled, the police chief said.
