By NITZ ARANCON
and LITO RULONA
Correspondents
POLICE yesterday said they doubted claims of sexual abuse, murder, and human organ harvesting here that were made by a teenager even as they revealed that the minor would be subjected to a psychological evaluation because she appeared to be delusional.
Chief Insp. Mardy Hortillosa, Cagayan de Oro City Police Office spokesman, said investigators acted on the 16-year old’s complaint but found no evidence that the things she told them were true.
Social welfare sent a team to help in evaluating the 16-year old on orders of City Social Welfare and Development chief Teddy Sabuga-a.
“Kinahanglan atimanon ta kini siya aron ma-assess nato kung tinuod ba gayud ang iyang istorya. Initial assessment kinahanglan siya og debriefing,” Sabugaa said.
The teenager went to a radio station with her aunt on Wednesday where she claimed that she was abducted along the highway in Barangay Agusan this March 6.
She claimed she was dragged into a van, injected with a substance that made her pass out, and gangaped with other victims.
The teenager also claimed to have witnessed a boy being killed and the suspects removing the organs of boys.
She claimed she escaped with the help of a guard the following day.
The teenager said her abductors were masked, had dragon tattoos, and was led by a huge foreigner who spoke in English.
Hortillosa said the police found out that none of the things the teenager said happened within the jurisdiction of the Puerto police station. Barangay Agusan is under the Puerto police.
“Cocpo is on top of the situation. No minor was kidnapped here,” Hortillosa said.
Puerto police chief Ian Borinaga said the teenager would undergo a psychological evaluation because investigators suspected she was not in touch with reality.
Borinaga said police checked the teenager’s claim that she worked for one Nicolai Suares in Barangay Agusan, and found out that there was no person with that name in Barangay Agusan.
“Among giimbistigahan ang iyang giingon pero wala may mga klaro ang iyang gisulti. Wala may ‘Nicolai Suares’ sa Agusan,” he said.
Camp Alagar spokesperson Supt. Lemuel Gonda said police would continue looking into the teenager’s claims despite the doubts resulting from initial investigation that showed the alleged victim’s story to be fiction.
Gonda said he also noted that it took weeks before the teenager reported the alleged crime.
But the teenager’s aunt showed an alleged five-page medical certificate supposedly from the Northern Mindanao Medical Center that showed that the teenager was found to have “several lacerations” in her genitalia. The alleged NMMC certificate, issued on March 13, 2017, had the names of physicians Georgina Bandevas Labis and Sarah Pingol.
Meanwhile, Sabugaa said the teenager needed to be evaluated first by the CSWD and doctors at the JR Borja General Hospital before they would send her back to the police for further investigation.
CSWD social worker team head Michael Pabello said the teenager showed signs of trauma.
“Kanang gabidli-on siya klaro kaaoy nga trauma ang iyang gibati kung makadungog siya og naghilak og makuratan,” he said.
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