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SunStar + May 19, 2021 NATIONAL Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy said the “Bakwit School 7,” whose criminal charges were dismissed, must not “celebrate” yet. Badoy said in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, May 18, 2021, that they will assist the Lumad parents, whose children were reportedly kidnapped and brought to the retreat house of the Societas Verbi Divini Philippines Southern Province, University of San Carlos-Talamban campus in Cebu City, to file a motion for reconsideration. The NTF-Elcac official said the dismissal of the case is only a “first round,” and they will exhaust all legal actions against the respondents.
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CEBU CITY – The Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in Davao del Norte has ordered the release of the seven persons who were arrested last February following a controversial police operation involving a group of Lumad children at a retreat house here.
Published May 14, 2021, 4:44 PM CEBU CITY – The Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in Davao del Norte has ordered the release of the seven persons who were arrested last February following a controversial police operation involving a group of Lumad children at a retreat house here. Complaints for alleged violation of the Child Abuse Law, Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, and kidnapping and serious illegal detention that were filed against the seven persons collectively known as “Bakwit School 7” were dismissed. The seven persons include Chad Errol Booc, Segundo Lagatos Melong, Benito Dalim Bay-ao, Moddie Langayed Mansimoy-at, Esmelito Paumba Oribawan, Roshelle Mae C. Porcadilla and Jomar Benag.
SunStar Bakwit School 7 cleared of charges, released REUNITED. Six of the Bakwit School 7 detainees find themselves together at the Police Regional Office 7 for medical check-up prior to their release on Friday, May 14, 2021. / CONTRIBUTED + May 14, 2021 AFTER almost three months in detention, two teachers, three adult Lumad students and two Lumad elders were set free on Friday, May 14, 2021. The Davao del Norte Provincial Prosecutor issued a release order as it dismissed the complaints for kidnapping and serious illegal detention, human trafficking and child abuse for lack of evidence and lack of probable cause. Even if evidence was found against them, the prosecutors said the cases fall outside the jurisdiction of their office as the alleged crimes happened in Cebu City.
Jason Gutierrez/BenarNews Police in the southern Philippines freed seven tribal leaders, students and teachers on Friday after prosecutors dropped charges against the group who were arrested three months ago for allegedly training children as combatants for communist rebels, their lawyer said. The seven tribespeople had been charged with kidnapping, human trafficking and other offenses after their arrest during a police raid on Feb. 15 at a makeshift school they had set up at the University of San Carlos, a church-run campus in central Cebu City. “All told, it appears that there is insufficient evidence to support any of the alleged crimes of kidnapping and serious illegal detention, human trafficking and child abuse,” Davao del Norte provincial prosecutors said in a statement issued May 5.
SunStar (Photo from NUPL Cebu Chapter) + May 14, 2021 THE Office of the Provincial Prosecutor (OPP) of Davao del Norte in Tagum City has ordered the immediate release of the Bakwit School 7 after it dismissed the criminal charges filed against them by the Philippine National Police Anti-kidnapping Group (AKG). The respondents Chad Errol Booc, Segundo Lagatos Melong, Benito Dalim Bay-ao, Moddie Langayed Mansimoy-at, Esmelito Oribawan, Roshelle Mae Porcadilla, and Jomar Benag, collectively called the Bakwit School 7, were charged with violations of the Child Abuse Law, Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, and kidnapping and serious illegal detention. They were arrested by local police last February 15, 2021 at the retreat houses of the Societas Verbi Divini Philippines Southern Province, University of San Carlos-Talamban campus in Cebu City.
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.