How twisted is this guy’s logic?
A man was arrested in Santa Rosa, Laguna yesterday for hanging his 4-year-old son upside down, beating him up, and recording the incident — all because he wanted his partner, the child’s mother to come back.
The incident allegedly happened on Dec. 18, ABS-CBN News reported.
The same report states that the child’s mother was in Iloilo at the time. Iloilo is in the Philippines’ Visayas island while Laguna, where the father and son were, is in Luzon.
Apparently, the child’s father was angry because he believes his partner was having an affair.
“She said she was going on vacation to the province, [she said she’ll] be back on New Year. [But I learned] that she won’t be back anymore because I found out that until now, she still has a [different] guy,” the unidentified suspect told ABS-CBN News in Filipino.
According to GMA News, the child’s mother had been gone for two weeks when the incident happened.
The suspect also admitted that he was drunk when he tortured the child.
In the video that went viral on social media, the father can be seen slapping and hitting his son on the stomach and crotch while the boy hangs by a window upside down.
According to GMA News, the suspect recorded the incident and sent it to his partner on Tuesday, Christmas Day.
The child’s mother then sent the video to her sister who then turned to the police for help, ABS-CBN News reported. Santa Rosa police chief Superintendent Eugene Orate told ABS-CBN News that they managed to rescue the child on the same day.
The boy is now in the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Bahay Pag-Asa rehabilitation center undergoing treatment.
Orate also told ABS-CBN News that the father had been hiding in a meadow beside a railroad in Barangay (Village) Pooc in Santa Rosa for two days before he was found.
A Santa Rosa City Social Welfare and Development (CSWD) officer told ABS-CBN News that the mother just wants to get her child back and does not plan to press charges.
However, the CSWD itself will file a child abuse case against the father.
According to the ABS-CBN report, the mother can also face charges if authorities find that she abandoned her child.
The video has reached the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights (CHR), which plans to investigate the incident.
CHR Region 4A-Director Rexford Guevarra told radio station Bombo Radyo that they will make sure that the father is jailed and that the son receives proper aid.
