The four teenage suspects tagged in the alleged sexual-molestation of two female high school students in Bacolod City Wednesday, continued to deny the abuse and instead insisted there was consent from the complainants even as the police prepared charges against them yesterday

Police Officer Arlene Torrendon of the Bacolod City Police Office Women’s and Children’s Concerns Desk confirmed that the medico-legal exam on the two girls showed the alleged rape was “consummated” and added that they are finalizing the requirements for the filing of the charges.

Two of the suspects, Rocky de los Santos, 18, and a 16-year-old boy, told the DAILY STAR there was no use of force or intimidation in what happened between them and the two 14-year-old girls after a drinking spree at the house of a certain Joemarie Bagaporo at Grandville Subdivision, Brgy. Mansilingan, Wednesday night.

The two other teenagers, Ryan Quijano, 18, Ricardo Salibio alias “JR”, 18, meanwhile, denied having sex with the complainants and added that the two are De los Santos’ and the 16-year-old boy’s girlfriends.

“How could we have touched them when they are our friends’ girlfriends? We just drank and sang with them,” Quijano and Salibio said while crying.                   

Quijano also said he left the Bagaporo’s house to look for his cellphone and was eventually fetched by his mother to go home because he had started to become confrontational.

Salibio, meanwhile, said he also left the residence and helped Quijano look for his cellphone that was supposedly taken by a certain Paul Ramos who was also with them but left after having a few shots of  rhum and cola.

De los Santos and the minor, both high school dropouts, on the other hand, maintained the girls went with them willingly in separate rooms.

The four were arrested by Police Station 1 and special task group members outside the Panaad Park and Stadium in Brgy. Mansilingan at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday and were positively identified by the two girls.

The complainants, whose names are being withheld by the DAILY STAR, told investigators they were molested after drinking with the suspects.

CASE BRIEFING, MARRIAGE

In a television report, the girls’ family members were shown attacking the four shortly after their arrest.

The 16-year-old boy’s mother, meanwhile, said she would leave it to the court to determine whether her son indeed abused one of the girls but added that she is planning to file counter charges against the complainants’ family for hitting him.

Even before any charge was filed, however, one of the boy’s older brothers started briefing him on what he should say if the case pushes through at the Police Station 1 lock-up cell yesterday.

“Just say she is your girlfriend,” the unidentified family member said, referring to his brother’s supposed lover.

De los Santos’ mother, meanwhile, said she is willing to allow her son to marry the other girl, who is also his alleged girlfriend, “if it is the only way he will not be jailed.”

Manaay, meanwhile, said, they will transfer the 16-year-old boy to the Bacolod Social Development Center Monday because his mother had shown them his birth certificate proving he is a minor.

The teenager was born on Jan. 24, 1992, the certificate showed.*PP

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