Special investigator Jesus Cañete of the Commission on Human Rights said Monday that he will summon a female doctor of the Bayawan City District Hospital to explain alleged negligence in handling a gang-rape victim.

The victim, whose name is being withheld by the CHR, claimed that on January 1, samples were taken from her genitals with the use of a spoon-like instrument, but the attending physician carelessly dropped it to the floor.

The complainant said she was then told by the unnamed female doctor that there can be no laboratory examination that day because the laboratory was closed.

She was then told to proceed to the Negros Oriental Provincial Hospital in Dumaguete for further examination. The test examination conducted at the NOPH yielded negative results, Cañete said.

Cañete said that even with negative results, the case will be pursued under the new rape law. He said he will also probe police personnel on duty on that day for inaction and negligence.

The victim, accompanied by the barangay head of San Francisco , Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental, went to the Bayawan City police station to report the alleged rape, but was allegedly told they cannot simply arrest the suspects.

She identified the suspects as Sonny Salipud, Toper Olpos and one John Doe, who, she said, took turns in raping her behind the Seventh Day Adventist Chapel in Apunoy, San Francisco , Sta. Catalina, at dawn of Jan. 1, 2008.

She turned over to the CHR black pedal pants with torn buttons with the zipper ripped, a dirty white sando and underwear, for examinations.*JG

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