Man goes berserk, slits son’s throat
A 28-year-old construction worker who reportedly had a nervous breakdown slit the throat of his two-year-old son yesterday morning in barangay Tejero in Cebu City.
Police arrested Robert Ompad after the incident and will be charged with parricide, said SPO1 Victor Ayuman, homicide investigator of the Cebu City Police Office .
Ayuman said Ompad and his live-in partner Alice Cañete, 28 were having breakfast when they had an argument.
Sheila Velasco, a neighbor, said she heard Cañete nagging the suspect.
Cañete suddenly ran out of the house when the suspect snapped and allegedly took a knife and attempted to attack her, a TV news report said.
The suspect then vented his ire on the boy who was asleep.
The five-year-old daughter however, managed to run out of the house and sought refuge with her grandmother.
It was the grandmother who found the boy already bloodied after his throat was already slit by the suspect.
Velasco said the boy’s head was almost severed.
“We were not able to immediately take the boy to the hospital because we were afraid that the father would return and attack us,” Velasco said in Cebuano.
The boy was declared dead at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC).
Neighbors managed to subdue the suspect and tied him up before the police arrived. The suspect was taken to the pyschiatric ward of the VSMMC.
Velasco said they were told that the suspect has been suffering from nervous breakdown and had twice tried to kill himself.
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