|
DAVAO CITY—The
poor girl who hanged herself here and whose death
triggered a national discussion on poverty was raped,
initial results of the autopsy conducted on her Thursday
indicated.
Dr.
Tomas Dimaandal, the city medico-legal officer here,
told reporters that Mariannet Amper, 12, suffered
multiple lacerations on her vagina and said that this
was caused by the insertion of a hard object, “probably
a penis.”
Mayor
Rodrigo Duterte, who called a news briefing late
Thursday, said that he has ordered a “deeper
investigation” into the case but clarified that he has
not held the father, Isabelo Amper, as a suspect.
Nonetheless, the police would invite the father “to
explain why he and the rest of the family failed to
report the incident to the police.”
“Mariannet Amper did not die because of poverty. She
died because of outrage,” Duterte said.
He also
appealed to the people, including media organizations,
to refrain from towing on the issue of poverty as the
cause of Amper’s suicide.
Supt.
Matthew Baccay, chief of the Talomo Police Station here,
had earlier said that the young girl was found hanging
inside their house on November 2 “but the family
reported it only on November 6.”
The
family reported it to the police in order to get her
death certificate, he said Baccay went to Amper’s
residence in Purok 11, Yñiguez Subdivision, to “invite”
the father to the police station to explain his side.
|
