Lesbian suspect nabbed in teen rape case

SORSOGON CITY – A lesbian was arrested by personnel of Casiguran Minicipal Police Station in connection with the rape of a 14 year old schoolgirl in Barangay Rizal, Casiguran, this province.

The suspect, also a minor, was arrested yesterday, July 24, about 7:49 AM at her residence in Bgy. Colambis, in said town.

The lesbian, and another suspect, a certain Fermin Camposano Habitan had been in hiding for six months after learning that a warrant for their arrest had been issued last January by Hon. Judge Flerida Zaballa of RTC Branch 51.

The suspect is now temporary committed at Haven-Substitute Home Care for Women in Bgy. Nasisi, Ligao City, Albay.

The Haven is a social welfare and development facility located at the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) complex. It provides temporary shelter and protective custody to women ages 18-59 years old, not only of victims of various abuses, but of women in detention as in the case of the minor lesbian suspect.

The incident of rape occurred on September 2, 2011 inside the house of Habitan.

Crime scene investigators together with barangay officials and the victim’s parents swooped down on the man’s home, where they processed a room where the incident is said to have occurred and seized several items of clothing belonging to the victim.

According to police report, the suspects, after inducing the victim to drink alcoholic beverages, commence the commission of rape directly by overt acts, while during the dizziness of the victim. It was around 8:00 PM when the victim was found by her father and sister inside the cabinet, located in the room of Habitan, unconscious.

Medico Legal Report issued by Municipal Health Officer (MHO) of Casiguran revealed that the victim had been sexually assaulted.

Several days after the incident, the victim was taken to a hospital for medical treatment due to Depression secondary to sexual trauma.

The suspects were charged for Violation of RA 8353 (Anti-Rape Law of 1997) and Violation of RA 7610 (Violence against Women and Children).

Fermin Habitan, resident of Bgy. Rizal, Casiguran, still remains at large. (MHatoc/PIA Sorsogon