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Murder

Boy, 16, couldn’t pay fare – stabbed taxi driver to death

March 30, 2013 – 08:00

Teenage boy shirtless

A 16-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly stabbing to death a taxi driver after they argued over taxi fare in barangay Basak-San Nicolas, Cebu City.

Ruben Lapeña Sacedon Jr., the 43-year-old driver of Tiger Taxi, died a few hours after he was brought to the Cebu City Medical Center.

The boy was arrested after the incident.

Police investigation showed that the boy flagged down the taxi in barangay Mambaling around 9 p.m. Wednesday and asked to be brought to barangay San Isidro in Talisay City.

When they arrived in San Isidro, the boy told the driver that he forgot to bring his wallet with him. The boy asked the driver to bring him to barangay Basak-San Nicolas so he could borrow money from his godfather.

SPO1 Ruth Violango said that according to the boy, Sacedon didn’t believe that he could get money in Basak-San Nicolas that resulted into an argument.

Police said the boy admitted stabbing the driver at the height of the argument.

Police recovered a knife in the taxi.

The boy was detained at the Mambaling police station.

Source: Inquirer News

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Good News

Young boys frolicked in sudden rain (real photo)

March 26, 2013 – 08:00

Young boys having fun in the water shirtless

Children frolicked on a flooded street in Manila on Friday, following a sudden downpour that ironically occurred as the weather bureau declared the onset of summer this week.

The thunderstorm was caused by the convergence of winds from the Pacific and the northeast. It was quite a timely reminder that the world was marking World Water Day.

Source: Inquirer News (photo by AP/BULLIT MARQUEZ)

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Theft

Teenage boy stole bike

January 12, 2013 – 08:00

Shirtless boy, blond, on bike

A 17-year-old boy accused of stealing a bicycle was arrested in barangay Pitalo, San Fernando town, southern Cebu.

Police said the boy was identified by Adelfa Alfanta, whose bicycle was stolen in barangay San Isidro last Wednesday.

Alfanta called the police after she spotted the boy talking with his alleged cohorts in an Internet shop past 9 p.m. last Thursday.

Police apprehended the boy but the two accomplices managed to escape.

Source: Inquirer

 

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Boy Life

Young shirtless boys ate vegetables

August 1, 2012 – 08:00

In time for Nutrition Month, nearly a hundred kids were treated to yummy vegetables, the Inquirer reports.

Soc Diesta, one of the Hands On Manila mentors, said good nutrition plays a big factor in the learning capability of children.

“They need to be well-nourished in order to absorb more,” she said.

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Abuse

Teenage boy forced pre-teen boys to dress up as women and beg for money

July 22, 2012 – 08:00

Manila policemen have rescued a 5-year-old boy, missing for a month, from the clutches of a teenager who allegedly took the child and forced him to beg for a living, the Inquirer reports.

Superintendent Roderick Mariano, the station commander, told the Inquirer that his men later caught up with 18-year-old Gerald Alejo, of Baliuag, Bulacan, whom the boy identified as the man who took him and two playmates from Arlegui Street in Quiapo last month.

He described the boy as dressed in a sleeveless shirt and a skirt and sporting a shoulder-length brown wig. The station commander explained that Alejo apparently wanted the child to appear as a girl so he could get more alms.

“When we asked the suspect why he had taken the boy, he said he needed to earn a living because he himself had also run away from home,” Mariano told the Inquirer, adding that Alejo told him he had been feeding the boy well from the proceeds of his begging.

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