15-year-old girl says soldiers abducted, raped her
15-year-old girl says soldiers abducted, raped her
By MELCHRIS CAYETANO
TW: rape, violence
MANILA – A 15-year-old-girl in Quezon province said in a press briefing on Jan. 21 that she was abducted, interrogated, tortured, and raped by soldiers belonging to the 59th Infantry Battallion of the Philippine Army back in 2020.
Belle, not her real name, said she was abducted on July 27, 2020 and was locked up in a room inside a soldier’s camp. She said she was subjected to interrogation, physical abuse, red tagging, and threats as soldiers were asking her of supposed rebel activities in her village. A few days into her detention, she said she was raped multiple times by one of the two suspects she recognized – a certain Leoven Julita.
Belle said she was also locked up in the office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Lopez town and at a house of a female police officer before she was released. She added she was threatened to remain silent, else she would be killed.
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