Mandaue police eyes vendetta in boy’s death | Inquirer News

Mandaue police eyes vendetta in boy’s death

07:52 AM January 12, 2013

POLICE are looking into vengeance as a possible motive in the death of a 3-year-old boy whose body was found in a grassy portion of FF Cruz, Reclamation Area, Mandaue City.

The lifeless, naked body of Jian Jumawan was found by personnel of the Saint James Amusement Park who were clearing a grassy portion behind the park past 4 p.m. yesterday.

The boy’s mother Grace said she had been looking for their youngest child since Thursday afternoon. The family lives a shack in the Reclamation Area.

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An autopsy will be conducted to determine the case of death.

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Police are looking into a possible connection between the killing and a case of child rape involving the slain boy’s father Arvin Jumawan.

Jamawan was arrested on Dec. 26 last year on suspicion of having raped a 3-year-old child of of an ex-convict, a certain Roel Jimenez.

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Insp. Ramil Morpos, deputy chief of the Investigation and Detection Management Branch (IDMB), said Mandaue police are looking into a possible motive of vengeance because Jian’s mother told them she recalled hearing Jimenez threaten to get even..

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The mother quoted Jimenez as saying during the filing of the rape case last December 27: “Sobra pa sa kasakit ang akong buhaton”.

Police are now looking for Jimenez, who works as a cigarette vendor and dispatcher./Reporer Jucell Marie Cuyos

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