By NITZ ARANCON
Correspondent
ANOTHER misfortune befell the mother of murdered Abba’s Orchard School 8th grader Stacey Eloisa Villar: the house left behind by the girl’s deceased father in Tablon was razed to the ground by a fire starting around midnight yesterday.
Villar’s mother Marideth “Madeth” Mah lost the estimated P700-thousand property on A. Neri Street, Sitio Baloy in Barangay Tablon.
SFO1 Dennis Dales said no one was hurt in the fire that prompted the fire department to raise the “2nd alarm” because the fire quickly spread.
Dales said investigators have yet to determine the cause of the fire. He said they were looking into claims that the fire started in one of the house’s rooms.
He said the fire department responded to the call for assistance when the fire broke out around midnight, placed it under control at 12:22 am, and declared a fire-out at 12:42 am.
Dales said the Villar house was leased by Mah to Cocoon Foundation for Substance Abuse Inc. that helps in the rehabilitation of people with drug problems.
Dales said over 10 drug dependents undergoing rehabilitation were in the house when the fire broke out. All escaped and are safe.
The house was left behind by Stacey’s father Anselmo Quisumbing Villar Jr.. It was under Stacey’s name and Mah, the elder Villar’s long-time partner, took control of it after the girl was murdered on Aug. 13, 2015. Anselmo Jr. died in 2009.
Mah has filed a murder case against Stacey’s alleged killer, Gregorio “Boyet” Rosabal Santos Jr., a car agent, who broke into their flat at Morning Mist Subdivision in Upper Carmen where he allegedly strangled the 13-year old.
The murder case shocked many people in Cagayan de Oro.
Rosabal is still detained at the Lumbia city jail while on trial.
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