A 22-year-old tattoo artist was arrested in Barangay Marulas, Valenzuela City over the alleged rape of a 16-year-old client in 2022, according to a report on Unang Balita on Tuesday.
The Valenzuela City Police served an arrest warrant against the suspect who was moving to different places in Valenzuela City and Quezon City to hide from authorities, GMA Integrated News’ James Agustin reported.
The incident allegedly happened in August 2022 and but the victim was only able to file the case against two suspects in June 2023.
Valenzuela City Police chief Police Colonel Nixon Cayaban said the victim was a regular client of the suspect.
“Itong biktima isa sa mga customers niya lagi. So after that siguro nagkaroon ng hindi inaasahang kwan, parang ‘yun nga, na-rape. At sabi parang gang rape pa. So nag-push through maisampa ang kaso,” Cayaban said.
(This victim is one of his regular customers. So after that, something unexpected happened, she was raped. Allegedly it was a gang rape. So they pushed through to file the case.)
“Itong accused naman siguro, hindi niya inaasahan at nabuntis pa itong biktima (The accused did not expect that the victim will be pregnant),” he added.
The suspect, who is in the custody of the city police, denied the allegations.
“Hindi ko po ginawa ‘yun. Mahirap pong magsabi. Dalawa po kaming sinampahan. (I did not do that. It is hard to say. There are two of us who were charged),” he added.
The police already arrested the other accused in the incident.—Joviland Rita/AOL, GMA Integrated News
