A housewife was brutally killed and believed sexually molested, Wednesday in a sugarcane field of Hacienda Basa 2 in Brgy. 10, Victorias City , police said yesterday.

Imelda Manapo, 42, also a farm worker, bore multiple hack wounds in the head, Supt. Norberto Boston, Victorias police chief, said.

Police said her body was half-naked, without her short pants and underwear, and was “spread-eagled” when found by her husband, Serafin, at about 6 p.m. on Wednesday, almost two hours after she failed to return to their home in the hacienda.

Boston said they believed she was hacked in the head before being molested, as indicated by the absence of signs at the crime scene of a struggle or resistance.

The police counted 17 hack wounds in her head and face. Her body was subjected to autopsy by the City Health Office of Victorias last night.

Boston said the suspect was probably familiar to the victim.

A certain Juanito Solatorio, 45, who was last seen with the victim before the incident took place, was invited for questioning by the Victorias police. However, he was released yesterday after they failed to produce evidence to link him to the crime.

Solatorio, a father of nine, was the godfather of the victim during her marriage to Serafin, and said he considered her almost a daughter to him, police said.

He vehemently denied any involvement in the killing.

Victorias police investigators will invite other farm laborers who were working with Manapo in the hacienda, shortly before she was killed.*GPB

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