BANGA, South Cotabato – A 16-year-old Grade 10 student who was reported missing was found dead yesterday in an irrigation canal in Barangay Punong Grande here.
Police Master Sgt. Ronald Jamero, case officer, in a report to Police Col. Jemuel Siason, South Cotabato police director, identified the victim as Barbie Inocencio, a Grade 10 student of Notre Dame of Banga.
He said the body of the victim, whose hands were hogtied and body wrapped with sack, was found by residents floating on an irrigation canal.
Inocencio was reported missing last Dec. 2 by her relatives after she failed to come home from school.
The victim’s mother, Bablyn, raised suspicion on her daughter’s whereabouts after she was not able to come home.
Jamero said investigators have asked the Philippine National Police-Scene-of-the-Crime Operatives to conduct an autopsy on the victim’s remains to determine the cause of death since an initial investigation showed no injures and wounds on her body. (Joseph Jubelag)
