Radaza to ask Christine’s mother to consider police findings

Rosalie O. Abatayo 04/17/2019

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza will ask the mother of Christine Lee Silawan to reconsider listening to the findings of the police, which implicates only Renato Llenes, the self-confessed killer of the teen…

PACC’s Dante Jimenez disappointed with the ‘hasty’ Silawan murder investigation

Delta Dyrecks Letigio 03/23/2019

CORDOVA, Cebu, Philippines — Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC)  Chairman Dante Jimenez said they are dissapointed with the “hasty” investigation into the death of 16-year-old Christine Lee Silawan. Jimenez said that the arrest of the 17-year-old prime suspect…

Palma urges suspect in teen’s slay to surrender

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/16/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma urged the faithful to pray for the surrender of the killer of 16-year-old Christine Lee Silawan, whose mutilated body found in Lapu-lapu City on Monday, March 11. “Akong pag-ampo nga unta…

NANAY SAYS: Light for Christine Lee

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 03/16/2019

My children came home yesterday from school bearing bad news. Antoinette, 5, said she learned about it from her classmate. She reported: “Naay namatay nga girl, Nanay. Wala na dila and things inside her body, gikaon sa…

Christine Lee Silawan’s shattered dreams: ‘She wanted to become a flight stewardess’

Rosalie O. Abatayo 03/14/2019

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu— Christine Lee Silawan was a quiet, obedient 16-year-old girl who did not ask for much. When practically almost everyone her age has a cellular phone, she was content sharing one with her two younger…

Police: No ‘shoot-to-kill’ order on Christine Lee Silawan’s killers; family wants murderers to suffer

Rosalie O. Abatayo 03/13/2019

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — “We want them alive.” The police in this city clarified that there is no shoot-to-kill order against the murderers of Christine Lee Silawan, the 16-year-old church worker who was killed with her face…

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