TACLOBAN CITY – A former child warrior of the New People's Army in Eastern Visayas has sought justice over the deceptive recruitment employed by the communist guerrillas. Lailanie Capada, now 25, from Barangay Baras, Borongan City, astern Samar, filed a complaint against the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) before the Commission on Human Rights for being robbed of her childhood. Capada said she was recruited by the NPA Sub-regional Committee Sesame (SRC Sesame) of the Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee (EVRPC) when she was 17 in 2015. The NPA frequented their house when she was only nine since her parents were also members of the rebel group. "A lot of children who were even younger than me at that time were recruited by the NPAs. I was the only one who took the courage to file a case to finally end this and help stop the recruitment of child combatants," Capada said. Capada said she was studying before she was recruited but was deceived by the promise that her family would have a better future with the NPA. "My recruiter Rialyn Cazada told me that if I will join the rebel group I will have a better life. I will become a doctor and a soldier at the same time," she said. However, her experience with the NPA was far from what they have promised as she was constantly in fear and uncertainty. She served as the group's medical officer deployed to perform life-threatening tasks by attacking soldiers. "There are children who are still in the hands of NPA and are being utilized as child combatants. I filed a case on their behalf to seek for justice and protect children from all forms of harm of deceptive recruitment schemes of the communist terrorists," Capada said. Capada, who was accompanied by some former NPA rebels in filing the case recently, appealed to the CHR to act quickly on her complaint. "I don't want more children to be recruited, especially now that enrollment in schools is approaching. Some students get recruited in schools so I wish to put a stop to that."