The Batangeño who tried to commit suicide after attempting to kill his son Monday is expected be released today from the Bacolod Police Precinct 8 lock-up cell, where he was detained for frustrated parricide complaints.

PO1 Jennifer Bautista, officer-on-case of the Bacolod Police Women and Children's Concerned Desk, said that the family of Leovino Caibigan, 34, of Mabini, Batangas refused to file charges for frustrated parricide against him saying that he did not know what he was doing when he hacked his son, Vincent Boy, 4, at the Social Development Center in Bacolod at about 3 a.m. Monday.

Bautista said Leovino's wife, Lina Callar, of Janiuay Iloilo, told her Monday that her husband was depressed when he left Janiuay on Nov. 1 for Bacolod. His depression probably made him violent while on board the Negros Navigation Ferry in Bacolod City, which was set to sail Sunday in Manila, she said.

Bautista also said that Leovino will be released Friday, but sources from the Bacolod Police Precinct 8 said the Caibigan family will take him out from the lock-up cell today and bring him back to Batangas.

Bautista insisted that Leovino should stay in detention and be subjected to treatment to prevent similar incidents, as he is not yet in stable condition.

Leovino hacked his son, Vincent Boy with a 14-inch-long cane cutter, and his own neck at the SDC, where they were temporarily sheltered after Leovino became violent Sunday.

The father and son, both with neck injuries, were rushed to the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, where the boy is now recuperating from two hack wounds in the left side of his neck and a cut in his right elbow.

Leovino said he wished to die and wanted his son to join him in death.

Police sources said Leovino appeared well-behaved inside the lock-up cell but sometimes talked to himself.*JJD

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