{"id":223470,"date":"2019-07-18T20:56:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T00:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=223470"},"modified":"2019-07-18T20:56:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T00:56:37","slug":"duterte-outraged-by-rape-slay-of-1-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/18\/duterte-outraged-by-rape-slay-of-1-year-old-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte outraged by rape-slay of 1-year-old boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_211029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211029\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AB2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211029\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AB2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AB2-1.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AB2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AB2-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AB2-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AB2-1-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte at the Caraga State University in Cabadbaran City, Agusan del Norte on April 21, 2019. ARMAN BAYLON\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte is \u201coutraged\u201d by the rape and killing of a one-year-old boy, whose body was later found in Makati, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, who described the crime as \u201cbarbaric\u201d, said Duterte was angered upon hearing the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tragic news has reached the attention of the President and he, like all Filipinos, has been extremely outraged by this heinous criminal act,\u201d Panelo said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo, meanwhile, hailed the Philippine National Police (PNP) for the arrest of the suspect, 28-year-old Gerald Reparip, who owned up to the crime.<\/p>\n<p>PNP said the suspect will be made to take a test to determine illegal drug use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the atrocity of this felony, investigation is also being undertaken to determine whether the suspect is under the influence of drugs,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>If proven that the suspect was indeed acting under the influence of drugs, Panelo said this should serve as a sign that the drug war should be beefed up.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSiyempre ipapaimbestiga natin at lalong papaigtingin natin siguro \u2018pag nalaman natin na kagagawan na naman \u2018yan ng mga nasa droga<\/em>\u00a0(Of course, we will have that investigated and we will strengthen the drug war once we find out it is caused by illegal drugs),\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>He also assured the public that authorities will bring justice to the young boy and his family.<\/p>\n<p>Reports showed that Reparip admitted to raping the victim before eventually choking him to death.<\/p>\n<p>The child\u2019s body was later found by his grandmother on the 7th floor of an abandoned building along Yakal Street in San Antonio, Makati City.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect admitted to being under the influence of alcohol.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte is \u201coutraged\u201d by the rape and killing of a one-year-old boy, whose body was later found &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":211029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223471,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223470\/revisions\/223471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}