Transfixed by the horror of 10 years of captivity

Ten years after watching Amanda Berry walk out of work for the last time, Darrell Ford stood transfixed behind a US police barricade imagining the horrors she must have endured.

Ten years after watching Amanda Berry walk out of work for the last time, Darrell Ford stood transfixed behind a US police barricade imagining the horrors she must have endured.
He may be implicated in a kidnap-murder case in Cebu but British national Ian Charles Griffiths is very much “liberated” in his home in Great Britian.

At least eight people were killed, eight others were wounded and a missing Chinese national was found in two separate clashes Thursday involving the Abu Sayyaf here and in Basilan, local authorities said.
Four Manila policemen are facing charges for allegedly kidnapping and extorting money from a businessman, his girlfriend and his sister in Barangay Bambang, Pasig City, last month.

A Quezon City court on Monday meted out life sentences to seven men accused of kidnapping a woman for a ransom of over P200,000 nine years ago.
Police have intensified a manhunt for the leader of a Manobo clan accused in a high-profile kidnapping in 2009 who escaped from a jail facility here on Sunday.
Even the chief of the Philippine National Police has admitted that capturing fugitive Army Gen. Jovito Palparan is proving to be “difficult,” as the former military commander has been trained in exactly the same way as his pursuers.
A Philippine policeman has been detained in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a woman after he was caught on camera driving the victim’s vehicle, an official said on Tuesday.
Kidnapped Australian national Warren Rodwell, not Roduel, as spelled in the earlier posting, may have been wounded when seven armed men snatched him from his home in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay Monday evening, the police said.
Unidentified gunmen seized a Manila-based businessman while he was visiting Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao on Thursday, the police said Friday.
DAVAO City, Philippines—Southern Mindanao police authorities on Thursday killed a kidnap suspect and wounded another during a raid aimed at recovering a six-year old boy who was kidnapped here earlier this week and taken to Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. The boy was later recovered unharmed from the custody of a couple, who said the [...]

With her waist-length hair cut short, she now looks like a “tomboy,” said Bella Ruby Santos. She also sported new tattoos on both legs and the back of the neck. The disguise didn’t work. Santos’ capture yesterday in SM Megamall in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, ended nearly three months of eluding an arrest warrant in Cebu [...]
DRIVER Mario Abecia admitted to the kidnapping and murder of his ex-lover’s 7-year-old son during yesterday’s inquest procedure in the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office. Abecio, 42, went down on his knees after the conference to ask for forgiveness from the boy’s mother, Cristine Morales. “Sorry, love, I only did it to use your son as [...]