Last February 14, Valentine’s Day, a 15-year-old girl met a monster via Facebook. Of course, she didn’t know that he man was a monster back then.
At that time, 36-year-old Arnel Pascual had been using the name, “David Mendoza.”
“Even if the suspect did not have any profile picture, the teenager agreed to meet him on April 17 at a fastfood restaurant along Commonwealth Avenue. The teenager was eventually convinced to go to a motel for a ‘massage,’ where the suspect allegedly raped her,” reports Reinir Padua in The Philippine Star.
Pascual was caught after he tried inviting the teenager to another tryst at a hotel last Sunday, June 15.
Superintendent Eleazar Matta, commander of the Quezon City Police District Station 6, revealed that over the weekend, the suspect sent a text message to the girl, saying he wanted to meet her again at a hotel to have sex. The report said that “one of the girl’s relatives accidentally saw the text message and confronted the teenager, who said she was supposed to meet the man that day.”
Thus, Pascual was nabbed in the entrapment operation. He was arrested near the Commission on Audit building along Commonwealth Avenue, where he had directed the girl to meet up with him.
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