Post by E-Q on Aug 3, 2008 20:06:07 GMT 8
By Nestor Etolle
Sunday, August 3, 2008
A 17-year-old Filipino-American student of De La Salle University (DLSU) managed to escape unharmed from her alleged abductors Friday night in a secluded place in Cubao, Quezon City.
Accompanied by her mother and an uncle, the second-year student narrated her experience before investigators of the General Assignment Section of the Manila Police District yesterday afternoon.
According to the victim, she started to feel “groggy” after coming out of the women’s comfort room in the Bro. Andrew Gonzalez building at the DLSU campus along Taft Avenue at around 4:30 p.m. Friday. She told police officers she was alone in the comfort room when she smelled something “weird,” which made her feel dizzy.
She said she was half-conscious when she left the building, but eventually passed out.
The student said she regained consciousness inside a red car parked at a secluded place in Cubao. She said she saw three men talking outside the car. She said she managed to get out of the unlocked vehicle and swiftly run away, catching the men outside the car off-guard.
The victim’s mother told police her daughter arrived at their house in Project 6, Quezon City at around midnight the same day, pale and trembling. The mother said she was frantically looking for her daughter, whom she fetches from school everyday. Last Friday, the mother said her daughter failed to meet her at the campus.
The victim lost a set of diamond earrings and a ring worth P120,000, a wallet containing P4,000 and $200 and ATM cards, which she believes were taken by her abductors while she was unconscious.
The mother subjected her daughter to medical examinations that proved that she was not sexually molested.
The police believe the victim could have been taken from inside the campus while she was unconscious. However, investigators said they would look deeper in how the coed was snatched without getting the attention of other students and the school’s security personnel.
They will also trace the source of the alleged “scent” at the school’s comfort room.
Meanwhile, the coed assured investigators she has never taken drugs and is willing to undergo drug tests to prove the veracity of her statements to police. The mother said she always accompanies her daughter to social gatherings and is fully aware of all of her activities.