Davao City police chief faces physical, verbal abuse raps

MANILA, Philippines—The wife of Davao City Police Chief Senior Superintendent Vicente Danao Jr. filed a criminal complaint before the Department of Justice against her husband for violation of Republic Act 9262 or the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act.

In a 12-page complaint, Susie Danao said she and her children have been physically and verbally abused by her husband from 2002 to 2013.

Department of Justice building. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

She said if she would not act on the abuses of her husband, he might continue with his acts as well as his marital infidelity.

“My children are getting older, and I am afraid that if my husband continues with his violent ways and marital infidelity, he would ultimately destroy the future of our children that I have helped build through my years of working as an OFW (Overseas Filipino Workers),” Mrs. Danao said in her complaint.

Last August, a video of the police officer physically and verbally abusing his wife went viral.

Mrs. Danao was accompanied by Gabriela Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan, who said in a statement that “[i]t is doubly alarming that the perpetrator is one who is supposedly expected to uphold the law.”

“How can he be expected to perform his functions in protecting women and children from violence when he himself is a perpetrator and insists on reducing cases of violence as trivial domestic concerns?” Ilagan said in a press statement.

Mrs. Danao already filed administrative case against her husband.

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