{"id":126963,"date":"2017-10-27T21:07:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T01:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=126963"},"modified":"2017-10-27T21:07:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T01:07:17","slug":"our-hearts-go-out-to-atios-parents-lacson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/27\/our-hearts-go-out-to-atios-parents-lacson\/","title":{"rendered":"Our hearts go out to Atio\u2019s parents: Lacson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Sen. Panfilo \u201cPing\u201d Lacson \u00a0(Photo:<\/a> Senator Ping Lacson\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Senator Panfilo Lacson on Friday took to social media his thoughts on the recent testimony of witness Mark Ventura, a former leader of the Aegis Juris fraternity, on what transpired during the initiation rites which supposedly led to the death of law student Horacio \u201cAtio\u201d Castillo III.<\/p>\n

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II earlier said that based on Ventura\u2019s testimony, the rites, which lasted for more than three hours, involved punching the victim, hitting him with a spatula and paddle.<\/p>\n

Aguirre further said that although Atio had already collapsed by the fourth paddle the frat men continued to hit him for the fifth time when the victim regained consciousness.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hearts go out to Atio\u2019s parents,\u201d Lacson said in his official Twitter account.<\/p>\n

\u201cStruggling between relief and agony, they hate to hear what they have always wanted to know – what actually happened to their son that dreadful early morning of Sep 17, 2017,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Lacson is chair of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs conducting the Senate probe into Atio\u2019s hazing death.<\/p>\n

Ventura is the second frat member who spoke about the events that transpired before Atio\u2019s death. The first is John Paul Solano, a medical technologist who tried to revive the victim.<\/p>\n

Aguire said that Ventura has already been accepted to the government\u2019s Witness Protection Program (WPP).<\/p>\n

Lacson, in an earlier statement, said that Solano \u201cblew his chance\u201d of becoming a state witness.<\/p>\n

Solano , a registered medical technologist, earlier claimed that Atio died of cardiac arrest due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and not due to hazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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