
A 12-YEAR-OLD girl who was suspected to have been raped was found dead beside a creek in Toril District, Davao City.
The victim’s lifeless body was found by a passerby near a creek at Purok 5 in Sitio Malacombeng, Bgy. Sibulan, Toril District.
Based on the investigation, the victim attended a festival and asked her parents to allow her to sleep at her grandfather’s house on Saturday.
The next day, she left her grandfather’s house to go home in the morning. However, a few hours later, she was found dead about 300 meters from her grandpa’s house.
Probers found bruises on the child’s neck, a sign that she was choked to death.
The victim had no underwear and her private part was bleeding, which police said an indication she was sexually molested.
Authorities are hunting down the suspect.