The 21-year-old woman, who said she was abducted by two men in a bar then raped in a boarding house in Cebu City, said someone must have drugged her beer because she felt dizzy right after.
In tears and still shaken, Nina (not her real name) yesterday related her ordeal in a radio station interview, accompanied by her mother and an aunt.
She had cigarette burns in her thighs inflicted by her assailants.
The student said she was with four friends in a bar last Sunday evening in Gen. Maxilom Avenue where they met Mark Anthony Dumpe, whom she identified as one of three men who raped her in a boarding house in barangay Sambag 2, Cebu City.
While Dumpe and a certain Julius remain at large, a third suspect Peter Espadilla Bendanillo, the caretaker of the boarding house, is under police custody but he denied any wrongdoing.
Dumpe was described as an upper year student in the same university attended by the vicitm.
Complaints for rape were filed yesterday against the suspects before the Cebu City Prosecutors’ Office.
Nina was brought to the Vicente Sotto Medical Memorial Center where test results indicated she had been raped.
Nina said she started feeling ill after drinking a shot of beer.
“Mao to pag-inom nako didto nako nahibulong nga di ko hubog ngano nalipong ko. Lain akong pamati di nako kadungog sa mga sounds so nigawas ko aron mag CR
(I was not drunk but I was surprised when I drank the beer, I got dizzy. I didn’t feel well and decided to got to the comfort room since I could no longer hear properly).
Two men followed her into the toilet, blocked her path and grabbed her.
She said she resisted when they told her to go with them.
For this, she got punched in the belly and passed out.
She briefly regained consciousness in a taxi.
When she woke up again, the student said she was surprised to find Bendanillo lying on top of her.
Nina said she pleaded for help to no avail.
“Ingon ko nga ‘kuya, tabangi ko, malooy ka sa ako’ (I begged him to help me and to pity me),” she said.
After the rape, the three men pushed her out of the boarding house onto the street.
Nina said she tried to seek help from bystanders but was ignored.
Some scolded her for shouting for help, thinking that she was mentally disturbed.
“Naa koy giduol nga mga babaye, nangayo kog tabang kay naka -feel sila sa akong gibati pero ila rakong gikataw-an (I approached a group of women to seek help but they just laughed at me. They told me I was crazy)” Nina recalled, breaking into tears.
Later on two gays showed up and helped her.
When they gave her a pair of shorts to wear, she noticed she had no underwear.
“Gusto nako mouli, gusto lang nako makauli, wa nako kahibaw ato (All I wanted was to go home),” she said.
After her ordeal, she said she didn’t have the courage to face her friends and family.
“Ganahan nako mahuman na ni (I I want this to end),” she said.
In a separate interview, the woman’s aunt who accompanied her, said Nina arrived home about 7 a.m. last Monday.
She was crying and told family members that she had been raped.
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