Rape charges have been filed against four teenage suspects tagged in the alleged sexual-molestation of two high school students in Bacolod City last week, the police said yesterday.

Police Station 1 commander, Chief Inspector Noel Manaay, said the charges were filed before the Bacolod City Prosecutor’s Office Saturday.

PO1 Jennifer Liba of the Bacolod City Police Office Women’s and Children’s Concerns Desk, also confirmed the filing.

Charged were Rocky de los Santos, 18, Ryan Quijano, 18, Ricardo Salibio alias “JR”, 18, and a 16-year-old boy, who are all from Grandville Subdivision, Brgy. Mansilingan, Bacolod, Manaay said.

The four were arrested by Police Station 1 and BCPO special tasks group members led by Manaay Wednesday night, after two female second year high school students complained they were raped by them after a drinking spree at a house at Grandville Subdivision, police records show.

De los Santos and the 16-year-old boy have both claimed they are the girls’ boyfriends and that there was consent from them when the incident happened.

Quijano and Salibio denied having sex with the complainants, saying they could have not done so because they had left the house earlier and that they respect their friends’ relationship with the girls.

De los Santos, Quijano, and Salibio are still detained at Police Station 1 and will be remitted to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Bacolod after preliminary investigation and when the court orders it, Manaay said.

The 16-year-old suspect, whose mother has produced a birth certificate proving he is a minor, on the other hand, was transferred to the Bacolod Social Development Center Saturday, Manaay said.

The Department of Social Services and Development, which oversees the SDC, had said that the facility’s personnel are trying to prevent children in conflict with the law under their custody from escaping, even after a 17-year-old boy tagged in stabbing a bar patron in Bacolod, had fled the center last week.*PP

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