Man who killed 7-year-old daughter to be charged with parricide

MANILA, Philippines – The man who stabbed to death his seven-year-old daughter because his wife refused to come home from Canada is facing a charge of parricide.

Mark Alvin Manliclic, who turned a photo of his daughter’s bloodied body into his Facebook profile picture, has undergone inquest proceedings over the death of Angel Mark Cathlene.

Chief Inspector Rodelio Marcelo, head of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, said that since his arrest, the suspect has been restless.

A video taken of him while in the custody of the police showed him screaming as he looked at photos of his daughter’s body.

In a resolution, Quezon City Prosecutor Conrado Rosario said he found probable cause to charge the jobless 31-year-old man with parricide “as shown by the fact that his hands were still full of blood when he was seen by a witness.”

Parricide is a non-bailable offense under the Revised Penal Code.

Angel Mark was stabbed dead before dawn on Tuesday while she was sleeping in their house in Barangay (village) Sta. Lucia, Quezon City.

Her father, who later told the police that he had drunk a lot of beer before the stabbing, posted a photo of her bloodied body on Facebook although it was deleted after a few hours by his relatives.

“They did not want social media to turn their suffering into a circus,” investigator Police Officer 2 Alvin Quisumbing said.

Police investigators, however, were able to take screen shots of the picture in addition to messages Manliclic had posted to his wife Cathy and mother Marlene.

Marcelo said the fact that the suspect had threatened to kill his child during an argument on Facebook with his wife was proof that the crime was premeditated.

“What also aggravated it was that he killed his defenseless daughter while she was sleeping,” he added.

Inspector Elmer Monsalve, QCPD homicide section head, said the father had admitted killing the child although he could not explain why he did it.

The suspect had been chatting with his wife on Facebook hours before the killing. They argued and he threatened to kill their daughter if she refused to talk to him further.

Based on his messages, Manliclic had been asking his wife to come home from Canada, where she had been working for weeks. His mother, Marlene, on the other hand, is based in the United States.

Manliclic and his daughter “had a relatively comfortable lifestyle since his wife and mother were working abroad but the suspect himself is jobless,” Monsalve said.

The suspect’s wife was expected to fly back to the country this weekend while the girl will be buried in Tiaong, Quezon.

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