Boy rapist goes scot-free

A 14-year-old boy has gotten off scot free after raping an eight-year-old girl in Bicol, taunting the victim’s parents.

Thanks but no thanks to former Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan who sponsored the law that coddles minors who run afoul of the law.

Under the Pangilinan law, a minor who is 15 years old or younger cannot go to jail for any criminal offense he commits, no matter how grave it is.

The police have been harping against that law, along with workers of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, but they can’t do anything but comply with its directive: Release the offending minors to their parents.

Barangay officials where the 14-year-old rapist lives are worried that he might rape other girls again because he goes around the village, seemingly on the prowl for another victim.

The boy’s parents who are supposed to keep him on a leash, in a manner of speaking, let him be.

Parents of young girls are worried that their child may be the boy’s next victim.

The eight-year-old victim has moved to another province because her assailant remains on the loose.

After being raped, she now has to endure being separated from her parents who remain in Bicol region.

Thanks, but no thanks to the stupid Pangilinan law.

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On January 29, 24-year-old Kenneth Casimiro was shot in the back by PO2 Jose Salamante Jr. in Imus, Cavite.

Casimiro was not a crime suspect; neither was he committing any crime when he was shot by Salamante.

He was buying roasted chicken from a sidewalk store when Salamante, who was allegedly drunk and looking for trouble, chanced upon him.

The cop is out scot-free while Casimiro is lying in bed paralyzed because the bullet hit him in the spine.

The National Police Commission which received the administrative complaint against Salamante has not suspended him.

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The 18.4-hectare property in Pasig near the Ortigas business complex is being auctioned off by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).

But how can the PCGG sell the lot when it’s now owned by a private corporation?

PCGG Chair Andres Bautista admitted that the commission was “not in possession of 10 hectares of the property.”

If the government doesn’t own the land, why is it selling it?