GENERAL SANTOS CITY – A police officer allegedly raped a 17-year-old student here.
Police Col. Nicomedes Olaivar, city police director, has placed the suspect, a police master sergeant assigned at the Police Station 3 here, under restrictive custody while charges for rape and grave misconduct are being readied against him.
The victim said that the suspect sexually molested her inside his bunkhouse at the back of the Traffic Enforcement Unit office on Pendatun Ave. before dawn on Jan. 16.
The victim said she and a female friend met the suspect while attending the fiesta of Barangay Bula, this city, on the night of Jan. 15.
She said that the suspect befriended her after introducing himself as a policeman.
“After he introduced himself as a policemen, I didn’t have second thoughts to trust him when he invited us for a dinner,” the victim recalled.
The victim said that after their dinner, the suspect volunteered to bring her to her house in Barangay Fatima here aboard his motorcycle.
She agreed with the suspect but he asked her to have a drinking spree in a beerhouse before going home.
After the drinking spree, the victim, who was already tipsy, requested the suspect to bring her to her house.
However, the victim said the suspect brought her to his bunkhouse where she was raped.
Olaivar has relieved the chief of the Women and Children’s Welfare Desk at the Police Station 1 who allegedly tried to cover up the incident after the victim and her relatives lodged a complaint against the suspect.
The city police director said that he does not condone any wrongdoing and misconduct of his erring subordinates.