An unidentified teenager tried to rob a cigarette vendor over the weekend, but finding she had very little worth stealing, beat her up instead.
“He punched me repeatedly in the head and then when I fell over, he kept kicking me,” Ara Daguit, a cigarette vendor, said in an Abante report. Daguit was waiting to ride a jeep in Barangay Tonsuya in Malabon City when a male teen, between 13 and 16 years old, approached her and poked a hard object at her.
Afraid for her life, Daguit handed over the contents of her pockets and her purse. The teen wanted to take her mobile phone, but she didn’t have one.
Daguit hit him with her bag, prompting the teen to beat her up. He reportedly was sore at her for fighting back even if she had nothing he could steal.
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