THE DEPARTMENT OF Justice junked the kidnapping case against Atty. Katherine Panguban, head of the Women and Children’s Committee of the National Union of People’s Lawyers, last June 28. The decision was based on the testimony of the mother and the minor who said that they went with Panguban.

The minor who is the sole witness to the Sagay 9 massacre on October 20, 2018 in Hacienda Nene, Sagay City, Negros Occidental. The police detained the minor and put him under the custody of the City Social Welfare and Development without the consent of her mother.