Mom kills 3-yr-old daughter
--- SABLAN, Benguet – “Ni mama ngamin, isu na nag kabil (It’s mama, she was the one who placed it).” These were the last words uttered by a three-year-old girl before she died when a cousin asked her who placed the knife in her back.
Police unlocked the mystery behind the killing of the child – Jeane Rose Argayan Mangili – in the remote sitio Tiw-iw, Barangay Banangan, Sablan, Benguet, last May 26, with the testimony of the victim’s six-year-old cousin, the lone witness to the crime.
Senior Inspector Christian Alucod, chief of police here, said the young witness named the victim’s mother, Diane Argayan, as the killer of her own child.
“Hindi puwedeng magsinungaling ang bata dahil nakausap pa niya umano ang pinsan bago ito namatay,” Alucod said.
Alucod said they filed parricide charges against Diane before the Benguet Provincial Prosecutor last Monday.
Police believed Diane, who has been separated from her husband, went into hiding after she transported the remains of her daughter to her hometown in Ifugao for burial in the evening of May 26.
During initial investigation, Diane told police that she was with her niece gathering pechay in their farm when their pet dogs started barking. She immediately sent her niece back home to check on Jeane Rose.
Dianne told police that her niece later returned to the farm and informed her that she found Jean Rose blooded in a prone position on the kitchen floor. They then reported the incident to the police.
Alucod, however, said they doubted the statements of the mother because when they arrived in the area that afternoon, they saw the body of the child lying on the bed and covered with a blanket inside the room.
Noting inconsistencies in the woman’s statements, police subjected the victim’s body to an autopsy.
Results of the autopsy conducted by Dr. Jaime Rodrigo Leal, medico-legal-officer of the Cordillera Crime Laboratory, show that the victim died from loss of blood due to a deep laceration in the back.
“We brought the cousin to the police station with her father without the knowledge of Diane. The municipal social welfare officer was also present when the child gave her statement of what she saw and heard from her cousin who died after,” Alucod added.
On May 27, around 11 a.m., Leal interviewed the victim’s cousin who gave a chronological account of what she knows that led to girl’s death.
The witness claimed that at around 11 a.m. on May 26, she went to the house of her aunt and asked her to accompany her to get pechay. Diane instructed her to go ahead to the garden and she will just follow.
A few minutes after, her aunt arrived, and while they were gathering vegetables, they both heard dogs barking from the house.
The cousin said she was ordered by her aunt to go to the house. She was shocked upon seeing her three-year-old cousin blooded in a prone position with a kitchen knife embedded in her back.
The cousin called her aunt, and upon returning to the house, asked the victim if she knows the person who stabbed her. The girl, who was then gasping for breath, replied “ni mama ngamin, isu na nangkabil.”
The cousin further related that upon hearing the victim’s response, her aunt said “enya syak? (what, me?).” The mother then pulled the knife from the child’s back, took her blooded clothes off and bathed her.
She said her aunt was crying as she was wrapping her child with a blanket as if she was putting her to sleep.
Police probers also found out that Diane cleaned the blood and fixed the things that scattered on the floor before she asked help from a neighbor.
Alucod said the incident was reported to them around 1:30 p.m. on May 26, and they immediately responded by a 45-minute walk on a steep ascending trail from Nagulian Road.
“Wala na kaming nakitang dugo o bakas ng isang krimen na naganap, kundi ang bangkay ng biktima na nakabalot ng kumot at nakahiga sa kuwarto,” the police chief said. (Zaldy Comanda)
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