Rappler.com-Aug 15
Police Corporal Shekhena Moh Reen Ibno says the cases continued to increase despite a police campaign to stir public awareness for the protection of women and children in Dapitan’s villages. Authorities expressed alarm over the number of rape cases in the city which has generally risen in the last five years. Many of the cases were incestuous, according to the police. In 2018, Dapitan registered nine rape cases, and it doubled the following year, Corporal Shekhena Moh Reen Ibno of the Dapitan City Police Office’s Protection of Women and Children Section told Rappler on Friday, August 12. From 18 in 2019, the number increased to 20 in 2020, but went down to 14 last year, which was still 64% higher than 2018’s documented number of cases, police said. Ibno said the number of rape cases in Dapitan reached 14 during the first seven months of 2022 and could surpass previous years’ records at the rate things were going. She said the cases continued to increase despite a police campaign to stir public awareness for the protection of women and children in Dapitan’s villages. Many of the sexual attacks took place in remote villages, Ibno said. Police said many of the rape cases were incestuous, and most of the victims came from broken families, the less fortunate, or children who were left to the care of relatives of parents working abroad. Read more at: https://www.rappler.com/nation/mindanao/number-rape-cases-dapitan-alarm-authorities/
