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Social welfare department releases Lumad child days after court order
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Updated March 12, 2021 6:36 p.m.
By DAWN CECILIA PEÑA
MANILA The Department of Social Welfare Department – Region 7 released the Lumad child in its custody days after the court granted the father’s habeas corpus plea on March 11.
The SOS Cebu team, along with the child’s father, gathered at the DSWD-7 office yesterday to facilitate the release of Mimi. However, the local DSWD refused to acknowledge the court order issued by the Cebu City Regional Trial Court Branch 20.
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Detained Lumad teacher transferred to another facility without lawyers’ knowledge
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
MANILA – Volunteer teacher of the Lumad bakwit school Roshelle Porcadilla has been taken out of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) without the knowledge of her lawyers and family, according to the Save Our Schools Network.
Kabataan Party-list Rep. Sarah Elago was supposed to visit Porcadilla on Sunday, Feb. 28 but PCol. Robert Limbawan said the teacher has been brought to the Police Regional Office-7 under the orders of Philippine National Police chief Debold Sinas.
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Published February 22, 2021, 11:52 AM
CEBU CITY – Days after they were rescued from the retreat house of a university here, 13 Lumad children were flown back to their hometown in Davao del Norte last Sunday night.
The children departed from the Mactan-Cebu International Airport at 6:30 p.m. via a Cebu Pacific flight and arrived at Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City at 7:15 p.m., said Police Col. Robert Limbawan, chief of the Intelligence Division of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7).
The children were accompanied in the trip by personnel of Women and Children Protection Center-Visayas Field Office and social workers from the Talaingod Municipal Social Welfare Office, said Limbawan.
Some of the 19 detained minors say police had been frequenting their communities and threatening parents to retrieve their children from a bakwit school in Cebu