CHR conducts probe vs. viral Laguna child abuse video

FILE: A father tied his son upside down in a window of their house in Sta, Rosa, Laguna. (Screengrab from a video uploaded by Myraflor Flores Basbas/Facebook)

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Thursday, December 27, said it has launched an investigation over the viral video of a father hanging his son upside down to a window of their house in Sta. Rosa, Laguna to make his wife come back home.

“While the CHR lauds the concerned government agencies that assisted in the reported swift rescue of the victim from his father who has since reportedly absconded, it has launched its own probe on the incident to ensure that the perpetrator is brought before the bars of justice with dispatch, and the child-victim is provided with appropriate assistance, including the physical and psychosocial treatment,” lawyer Rexford Guevarra, director of CHR Region IV-A, said.

In the video that runs for almost three minutes, the father can be heard asking his son if his mom was happy leaving them alone in the house.

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It was reported that the child’s mother left their house and went back to her province in Iloilo after she apparently had a misunderstanding with her husband.

To make his wife come back to their home in Laguna, the father recorded himself punching and slapping his son after he tied him to the window.

The incident took place last December 18, but the man only sent the video to his wife’s social media account on Christmas Day, December 25.

Guevarra, in his statement, said the CHR condemned such “reprehensible act” committed by the father to his four-year-old son.

“The CHR reiterates that due to their special condition, children are entitled to special care and assistance as a matter of right, and that no child deserves such abominable treatment from anyone, least from the very people that law and society expects to endow them with love and nurturance,” he stressed.

According to Superintendent Eugene Orate, chief of Sta. Rosa police, the authorities already arrested the father on Thursday noon and is now under the custody of the Sta. Rosa Police Station.

The father will undergo a drug test and will be slapped with charges for violating the child abuse law.

His son, meanwhile, was already brought to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and will also undergo a medical examination.