A Filipino air stewardess was found dead in a hotel bathtub after being allegedly gang-raped by several individuals at a party.
23-year-old Christine Angelica Dacera had checked into City Garden Hotel in Makati, Manila, Philippines to celebrate the new year with some of her friends and colleagues, reported The Sun.
At about 10am, one of her colleagues at the party, Rommel Galida, woke up and found her in the bath and assumed that she was sleeping. He took a blanket and covered Christine before going back to sleep.
However, when he woke up several hours later, he found her still unconscious and starting to turn blue. Fellow cabin crew members immediately performed CPR on Christine but she failed to respond. She was then rushed to Makati Hospital where doctors declared her dead.
The results from the autopsy have yet to be confirmed but Christine’s body had evident bruises and cuts on it, including her thighs and knees. Investigations have also led to suspicions that Christine might have been raped or gang-raped as there were lacerations and sperm in her genitalia, according to Makati City police chief Colonel Harold Depositar.
Authorities later discovered that about 10 people had attended a private party in one of the rooms the group had rented.
Meanwhile, investigations are underway to determine if Christine had taken any drugs or alcohol while the secondary cause of death is suspected to be an aneurysm. However, the aneurysm does not dismiss the fact that there could be other factors that contributed to her death.
According to NST, the police have since filed charges of homicide and provisional rape against 11 men who were with Christine, occupying two adjacent hotel rooms in that city at the time of her death.
Only three of the 11 respondents in the charge have surfaced, while the others are still at large.
Depositar said the charge filed was provisional as the prosecutor’s office would be waiting for the autopsy findings and the toxicology report.
“Only three of them (respondents) were Dacera’s friends,” he said.
“The others were practically strangers to her, as they were only known to her three friends.”
RIP Christine. Let justice be served!
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