A police officer was killed in a rescue operation involving a married woman who was kidnapped and held as a sex slave for nearly a month.
PO3 Marlon Francisco was shot by the kidnapping suspect Aldy Mendez during a gun battle in a nipa hut in Nueva Ecija province Tuesday afternoon. Mendez was also killed in the encounter, reports the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Mendez allegedly kidnapped the victim after killing her husband.
In a report by GMA News, the 40-year-old victim said she was sexually abused by Mendez for up to four times a day since she was abducted on May 16. He also threatened to kill her several times.
Police officers found the victim “bound with metal chains wrapped around her neck and leg.”
Franciso was rushed to the hospital but he was dead was declared dead on arrival.
Although the situation was difficult to accept for the fallen cop’s wife, she said she hopes that the rescued victim gets to live a better life to give meaning to her husband’s death.
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