Authorities suspect that the mother “Carol” (not her real name) ate her daughter’s internal organs after slitting her throat.
Neighbors said they alerted police when they saw a bloodied Carol outside her house carrying a sack. They said the suspect was caught in the act of throwing the sack, which contained the dead infant.
“Dati pinutol niya ‘yung ulo ng pusa tapos ininom 'yung dugo, tapos ngayon naman ginawa niya kinatay niya ‘yung anak niya. Ininom niya ‘yung dugo tapos kinain niya ‘yung atay, puso, saka bituka nung anak niya,” said Reynaldo Gantalao, one of Carol’s neighbors.
Police said Carol, who had a live-in partner, was living a life of depression after her husband left her.
“Kasi iniwan siya ng dati niyang asawa. Siguro dahil sa matinding problema kaya nabaliw ‘yung nanay,” said Police Superintendent Baltazar Israel.
Medical examinations confirmed that Carol is suffering from schizophrenia.
The incident has raised fear among the residents of Ilagan. “Karumal-dumal talaga, biruan mo ganun ‘yung ginawa sa anak niya,” said one of the residents Marilou Agor.
The Provincial Prosecutor’s Office has filed parricide charges against the suspect.
Carol is set to be admitted to Cagayan Valley Medical Center to receive medical attention.
The Inquirer filed a report about a three year old girl who can supposedly predict fires, but if you read the report it sounds more like that the girl is a pyrokinetic.
The little girl will mention an object within her eyesight and say that it will be on fire. In the example given, she saw a pillow and said, "Pillow... fire" and the pillow started to burn.
So, she wasn't really predicting the fire, but she was willing it to happen.
The report mentioned several eyewitnesses, which even includes the town mayor.
The father recalled an incident when he took his wife and daughter into the town proper to buy soda last month.
As he was alighting from his tricycle, his daughter reportedly said, “may sunog alas nuebe (there will be fire at nine o’clock)."
He ignored his daughter's comment at first but was surprised to see the spare tire of his tricycle on fire shortly after 9:00 a.m. that day, the report said.
Fire ‘seer’ draws hundreds to Antique village By Nestor P. Burgos Jr. Inquirer Visayas, 03/09/2011
ILOILO CITY, Philippines—Hundreds of people are flocking to a small village in Antique to ogle over a 3-year-old girl who has been spinning the village’s rumor mill fast over her supposed supernatural power to predict fires.
Authorities and villagers, who claimed to have witnessed the girl’s power firsthand, swore to seeing clothes, sleeping mats, pillows and paper burn inside the girl’s home just after the girl predicted these things would burn.
Among the “believers” were San Jose Mayor Rony Molina and Chief Insp. Gilbert Gorero, town police chief, who said they witnessed things burn inside the girl’s home just after the girl said they would.
Mayor Molina said he was just one of the hundreds of curious people who checked what he said was a phenomenon inside the girl’s home. He said he saw a pillow burn just after the girl said “fire ... pillow.”
“I can’t explain it. I’m a town mayor and I don’t easily believe in this kind of things, but I saw it,” he said.
Police officer Gorero said he saw a biscuit burn on its edges without anyone touching it. “I did not believe it at first. Why would I? But we came to investigate after many people came to the girl’s house,” he said.
He said he saw five objects suddenly catch fire or smolder without anyone touching them.
“We have been trying to come out with a logical explanation but so far we have not found any,” the police officer said.
Molina has ordered policemen and village watchmen to monitor the girl’s house as throngs of people have started gathering there.
A fire truck was put on standby. Mayor Molina said authorities wanted to help the girl’s family get medical tests for the girl. The girl’s parents—a tricycle driver and jobless woman—might need counseling, too, because they have been losing sleep since the girl became an object of curiosity.
“They want peace and privacy but people will keep on coming until we can explain what’s happening,” said Molina.
A mythical White Lady was blamed for an accident involving a passenger bus that went out control and crashed in the northern Philippine city of Tuguegarao, a radio report said Wednesday.
Bombo Radyo reported at least one passenger was injured in the incident involving the bus (BVB-535) plying the route between Tuguegarao and Santiago City.
Bus driver Rogelio Gaspar said a long-haired woman in white suddenly showed up in his path, prompting him to swerve to avoid hitting her. He said he lost control of the bus.
A local resident, Nonong Decena, said several road accidents had happened in the area, with motorists saying they tried to swerve to avoid hitting the White Lady.
Decena’s claim could not be immediately confirmed with the police.
"Janet Banico, a 26-year-old bank teller, had already picked out a name for her daughter: Jharian Ezekiah. The first-time mother, however, never got a chance to name her newborn baby after two women whom she met by chance in a passenger jeepney last week kidnapped her, took the infant and then dumped her in front of a church in Manila."
According to the report, the mother was riding a jeepney and on her way to the hospital. She got out of the jeepney to get a cab and two women, who were also riding the jeepney, came down to help her. They joined her in the cab and gave her medicine to calm her down. The mother fell asleep and later woke up in a hospital gown, but she noted that the bedroom did not look like the usual hospital room.
She was kept there from Thursday til Sunday.
She woke up Sunday, 1am, in front of the Sta. Cruz church from across Plaza Sta. Cruz.
There was no sign of her shoes or her bag which contained P18,000 in cash and her cell phone.
And we have another report of someone who supposedly got hypnotized and surrendered her money to a pair of con artists.
Student loses P10,000 to con artists by DJ Yap, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11/02/2008
MANILA, Philippines--A pair of con artists sweet-talked a nursing student into parting with her tuition money Sunday morning while she was waiting for a passenger jeepney in Pasig City, the police said.
Joyce Ann Sanchez, 17, lost P10,000 in cash and two mobile phones to a man and a woman, in what the police described as a "budol budol" (hypnotism) scam, a report in the Pasig Police Station blotter said.
MANILA, Philippines – A Chinese national lost over P200,000 in cash to a woman who might have hypnotized him into giving up his money.
Chen Xiao Xiong, a cook at My Home Daily Restaurant on Kalaw Street, Ermita, and resident of Nakpil Street, Malate, Wednesday went to the Manila Police District-General Assignment Section to report the incident.
Police are now looking for the suspect, described as “a Chinese-looking” woman, sporting short hair, 45-50 years old and 5’2”-5’3” tall.
The incident happened around 9:30 a.m. along Ongpin Street in Sta. Cruz, Manila. The victim said he was on his way to Arranque Market when he met the suspect who spoke to him in Mandarin.
The suspect offered to sell him a gold necklace, saying she needed the money for fare back to China. The victim claimed he felt weak after the suspect tapped him on the shoulder. Later, he felt he had to turn over P200,000 in cash and his wallet containing P35,000 to the suspect.
After taking the money, the suspect immediately left.
"The victim claimed he felt weak after the suspect tapped him on the shoulder." Is it possible that the unsub drugged the victim and that's what made him obey her orders?
Got this link from Andre, which made me think of The Ringmaster, the Spider-Man villain who wore a top hat with a spiral disc that he used to hypnotize people. Also remember other super-villains like Mesmero and the Purple Man.
Then there was that man I met in KL and it's just all too embarrassing to tell how I got conned into giving him several hundred ringgit. (My mom thinks I was hypnotized. I think I was just too scared and too stupid to do anything else.)
Criminals are now more creative in preying on their victims by employing new techniques which include, believe it or not, hypnotism, an anti-crime group has warned.
In an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Tessie Ang See of the Movement for the Restoration of Peace and Order (MRPO), warned the public on Thursday, particularly Chinese Filipino families, to be more vigilant, aware and informed of the new modus operandi used by criminal groups.
“Criminals are now more creative in perpetrating their dastardly acts, more so since these are difficult times. Chinoy (Chinese Filipino) families are especially vulnerable,” she said.
One of the newer and more unusual methods is the use of hypnotism, according to Ang See.
She explained that they received stories from three victims allegedly hypnotized into giving up their cash and valuables. According to Ang See, three women speaking in Mandarin roam the streets of Binondo and swoop down on unsuspecting Chinese females walking alone.
“Through some form of hypnotic suggestion, the victims follow the commands of the women,” Ang See said.
One victim was hypnotized into going back to her residence in Quezon City to retrieve her cash and valuables and return to Binondo to turn them over to the hypnotizers. Another victim even went to her bank to open her safe deposit boxes.
Another victim, Ang See said, felt weak after the perpetrators tapped her on the shoulder. She went home, took her valuables from her cabinet and turned them over to the thieves. She then fell asleep and awoke refreshed and puzzled as to how she agreed to give the thieves her valuables.
Ang See said they requested the victims to provide a sketch of the perpetrators to warn other potential victims and help police arrest suspects.
