Husband of woman who allegedly killed baby refuses to file charges against her

A 28-year-old woman who allegedly killed her 7-month-old child in Iloilo will be released today if no charges will be filed against her.

According to Chief Inspector Joven Arevalo, the Barotac Viejo municipal police chief, the unidentified woman allegedly brought the male infant to their home’s kitchen sink where she allegedly killed him with a trowel and a pair of scissors, Panay News reported.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer stated that the woman also allegedly drank the baby’s blood.

The Inquirer report added that the woman’s husband was picking vegetables a few meters away from their house when one of their children told him that the mother was looking for a bolo (a native Filipino knife).

He then rushed home to see his bloodied wife and child.

The baby boy was brought to the hospital but eventually died, ABS-CBN News added.

Inquirer stated that the woman was detained at the police station in Barotac Nuevo, a town 38 kilometers away from Barotac Viejo.

Authorities believe that the woman was having a nervous breakdown at the time of the incident, Panay News added.

Arevalo told Panay News that a parricide charge could be filed against the woman, but she could get away with it if no one from her family files a case against her.

“The husband does not intend to file any case. He wants to get her medically treated instead,” Arevalo was quoted saying by Panay News.

Arevalo added that anyone from the family could file a case against the woman but from what the authorities have gathered from the relatives, “no filing of charges will happen.”

The police also advised the husband to bring his wife to a medical facility to have her checked after her release, Panay News report added.

Arevalo added that the woman was “unstable,” saying that she would change the way she speaks from time to time.

“Sometimes she would scream, and then she would cry, and then laugh,” he said.