Sexagenarian hunted for slay of daughter-in-law

MANILA, Philippines—A 37-year-old woman was killed Sunday evening allegedly by her father-in-law, who accused her of neglecting his grandchildren.

Mary Jane Maceda, of Oro B St. in Sta. Ana, Manila was knifed in front of her two children and was declared dead on arrival by attending doctors at the Sta. Ana Hospital from a single stab wound in the right shoulder near her neck.

Her alleged attacker, Rodolfo Maceda, 62, fled after the assault and is the subject of a police hunt.

PO3 Alonzo Layugan, of the Manila Police District homicide section, said the incident happened at around 8 p.m. Sunday inside the Maceda home.

Layugan revealed that before the incident, Maceda was in her room with her two children, one of them an 11-year-old boy, when her father-in-law barged in.

The case investigator pointed out that the suspect, who was apparently drunk, confronted his daughter-in-law over her alleged neglect of the care of her children while her husband was working abroad.

The boy told Layugan that his mother and grandfather argued until Rodolfo strangled Mary Jane. The boy then saw his mother’s right shoulder bleeding and watched as she fell back on the bed while his grandfather fled.

The boy, seeing his mother wounded, sought the help of other housemates who brought her to the nearest hospital where she declared dead on arrival.

MPD homicide section personnel are conducting follow-up operations for the arrest of the suspect.