‘Libod-suroy’ minors in Cebu City alarm police

Emmariel Ares 04/11/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – ‘Libud-suroy’ minors or street kids are again making their unwelcome presence in Cebu City and law enforcement agents expressed alarm. Videos that surfaced recently, show many young children engaging in illegal activities, such…

Tiu given until today to submit affidavit

Apple Ta-as 06/15/2015

THE former chief of Fuente Police, now Cebu City Police Station 2, is given until today to answer two administrative charges over the shaving of the heads of three girls rounded up during a Libod Suroy operation.…

NBI TO FILE MURDER RAPS

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 05/20/2015

Child witness identifies cops, but not Tiu;  Why do Fuente police shave heads of girls? By next week, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will be ready to file murder charges against several policemen for the death…

Chastity and the invisible night

Raymund Fernandez 04/22/2015

There are subtle intricacies in the design of old Philippine colonial houses. Whatever it was called, balay nga bato, balay nga tisa, or dakung balay, it was always a house of shadows and secret doorways. The posts…

Fuente police say Chastity not among 14 kids rounded up in Easter

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Apple Ta-as 04/22/2015

NO NAME IN PINK  BLOTTER Fuente police did round up street children on Easter Sunday — 14 of them according to a list in the “pink blotter” of the station. But none of the names listed there…

Justice for Chastity

04/21/2015

Cebu City was awarded the 2014 Seal of Child-Friendly Local Governance by a national council for the welfare of children headed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). It’s not hard to see why. The…

Fuente chief on vacation

Apple Ta-as, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/21/2015

Will police chief  attend City Hall inquiry today? Street kid Chastity  died due to ‘traumatic injuries to trunk’   What kind of beating caused the death of 11-year-old child beggar Chastity Mirabiles? Why was she detained in…

Margot: Chastity’s case clouds Cebu City’s ‘child-friendly’ tag

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/20/2015

Cebu City’s title as a “child friendly city” may be questioned with the death of 11-year-old streetkid Chastity Mirabiles, Cebu City Councilor Margot Osmeña said yesterday. “If true, that is horrible and I hope that it is…

Cebu city vice mayor orders probe into complaints of police abuse of street children that caused girl’s death

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Apple Ta-as, Intern 04/18/2015

NO MORE CHASTITY Cebu city vice mayor orders probe into complaints of police abuse of street children rounded up in ‘Libod-Suroy’ program NBI to conduct autopsy of  young Chastity   The death of an 11-year-old child beggar…

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