ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 20, 2008) – Police arrested one of two men who murdered three people, including an eleven-year old girl and the mother of a Catholic priest, in the southern Philippines.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said the killings occurred late Saturday in the town of Sinacaban in Misamis Occidental province. It said Henerosa Daplin, 82 and her helper Gina Ozar, 39, and daughter Shoena Mae, 11, were mercilessly stabbed to death.
Daplin was the mother of Fr. Arnold Daplin, a pastor of Holy Rosary Parish in Oroquieta City, also in Misamis Occidental.
Fr. Peter Hequielan, pastor of Saint Joseph Parish in Sinacaban town, told the CBCP that the neighbors rushed to Daplin’s house after they heard shouts for help, but found the three victims sprawled on their blood with stab wounds.
With the help of Daplin's neighbors, policemen arrested one of the assailants, Tancio Asegnar, 30, in a bus while trying to escape. Asegnar, a former working student of Daplin, admitted killing the trio.
“The suspect, Asegnar, admitted the crime and disclosed that he had companion when the crime was committed. He also admitted that because of jealousy he only wanted to kill Gina, until Henerosa and the child saw him which prompted him to kill them too,” the CBCP said in a report posted Monday on its website, which can be accessed on this URL: http://www.cbcpnews.com. (Mindanao Examiner)
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