PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur—A female prisoner has accused a top local provincial jail officer of raping her as she also said he had sexually abused three other female inmates “one after the other in one night.”
The jailed woman, who requested strict anonymity, revealed her ordeal in a letter she sent through a motorcycle rider to local radio RMN-DXPR.
The woman said she is also five months pregnant.
The letter was read in full on air by broadcaster Anacleto Deleverio in his program “Gahom ug Katawhan” (Power and People).
For fear of her life, the 29-year-old woman from a remote village did not identify the erring jall executive, but described him as “in his early 30s,” adding she could no longer recount how many times he has sexually forced himself on her and her fellow female inmates.
She lamented that she and her co-prisoners had not been visited by any of their relatives or friends so, writing in Cebuano dialect, “there is no one to whom we can relate our sad plight in jail.”
According to her, a concerned wife of a jail guard reported the alleged illicit sexual acts of the jail officer to Zamboanga del Sur Rep. Aurora Enerio-Cerilles, wife of Gov. Antonio Cerilles, who reportedly assured the guard’s wife that she, legislator Cerilles, “will take immediate investigation on the charges which until now has not been conducted.”
The prisoner, who pledged to turn witness against the accused jail official, claimed the same jail exec also allegedly malversed funds and materials for the governor’s jail projects by reportedly using the money to construct his house at Barangay Bogo, this city.
Deleverio said efforts to contact the erring jail executive to get his side “failed a number of times.”
