Dealing with streetkids

09/18/2015

Last Friday’s roundup or “rescue” of 45 streetchildren, many of them sniffing rugby and  loitering under bridges in barangays Mabolo and Banilad was in the headlines, but it wasn’t rare sight in Cebu City. One just has…

10 street children get share of Daniel’s foreign donations

Norman V. Mendoza 08/11/2015

Nine-year-old Daniel Cabrera has a new home in Mandaue City, a rented room sponsored by a donor. At least 10 other street children in barangay Subangdaku will also  get a share of the donations  from 10 foreign…

Massive roundup of Cebu city mendicants comes ahead of APEC

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/04/2015

OFF THE STREETS Beggars, vagrants and night dwellers in the streets of Cebu City will be rounded up by the city government starting Aug. 14. The roundup which starts at 10 p.m. will be done a week…

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…

Cops to ask social workers to join roundup of minors

Apple Ta-as 05/05/2015

Fuente station police will resume  rounding up street children on weekends  in Cebu City but the new officer-in-charg e said  social workers will be present in each operation. Chief Inspector David Señor, who took over as OIC…

Care for streetkids, public urged

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Melissa Q. Cabahug 04/27/2015

Church leaders in Cebu called on the people to reach out and care for street children instead of maltreating them in the wake of the death of 11-year-old street child Chastity Mirables a day after Easter Sunday.…

NBI-7 steps into probe of child beggar’s death

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Apple Ta-as 04/24/2015

The National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI) is looking deeper into the death of 11-year-old street child Chastity Mirabiles alongside a parallel inquiry by at least two police groups. Three NBI agents were put on…

Bar girl says Fuente station chief molested her

Apple Ta-as, Chito O. Aragon 04/23/2015

First, the death of an 11-year-old street child. Now it’s a 23-year-old   bar girl airing a complaint about how the chief of the Fuente police station  allegedly took advantage and molested her after she was apprehended .…

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…

Hustisya alang kang Chastity

Lloyd Suarez 04/22/2015

Ugkaton karong adlawa ni Dr. Rene Cam, medico legal officer  sa National  Bureau of Investigation (NBI) ang  patay’ng  lawas sa 11 anyos  nga batang babaye nga giingong  manglimosay sa Mango Avenue nga si Chastity Mirabiles. Kinsa  man…

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…

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…

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