I thought my mother was a hog, says Cotabato man on pre-Halloween killing

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PIGCAWAYAN, North Cotabato – It came at a time when Filipinos were preparing to remember departed loved ones, two days before Halloween parties preceding “Undas.”

A 36-year-old man killed his mother while his father was away working at the farm.

Joy Rey Biongan told police he thought his mother was a hog that he would have to slaughter and cook.

Chief Insp. Realan Mamon, chief of the Pigcawayan Municipal Police Station, identified the mother as 61-year-old Rosavilla Biongan, a resident of Sitio Barte, Barangay Kapayuran in Pigcawayan.

“It was creepy. It was hair-raising news,” Supt. Bernard Tayong, spokesperson of the North Cotabato Police Provincial Office.

Tayong said the suspect had been suffering from depression since being hit by a speeding bus a few years ago. Since then, the suspect also became mentally unstable, forcing his family to isolate him inside the family’s home.

“He was tied and jailed since he became aggressive and harmful,” Tayong said.

On that fateful Monday, 64-year-old Andres Biongan, the father, was away. Rosavilla then freed her son out of pity, police said, quoting neighbors and the suspect’s siblings.

When the father arrived from the farm at about 6 p.m., he saw his son bloodied and holding a bloodied machete.

The son asked his father: “Do you know her?”

Andres then saw the dismembered body parts of his wife. He fled, yelling for help from his other children.

The siblings subdued Joy Rey, who did not resist arrest when the police arrived. /atm/ac