{"id":771158,"date":"2016-03-06T12:38:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T04:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=771158"},"modified":"2016-11-01T14:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T06:10:29","slug":"mother-stabs-daughter-5-inside-church-during-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/771158\/mother-stabs-daughter-5-inside-church-during-mass","title":{"rendered":"Mother stabs daughter, 5, inside church during Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CEBU CITY, Philippines \u2013 Merlyn Abao, 29, went to hear early morning Mass at the National Shrine of St. Joseph in Mandaue City with her five-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n\n

While the officiating priest, Fr. Benjamin Cortes, was delivering his homily, Abao suddenly burst into anger, screamed and stabbed her daughter with a broken bottle at least four times.<\/p>\n\n

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The two were seated on the front row, facing the national shrine’s altar, while they heard the\u00a04:30 a.m.<\/span>\u00a0Mass.<\/p>\n\n

The girl sustained stab wounds on her chest and arms, police said.<\/p>\n\n

Churchgoers came to the girl’s rescue and stopped Abao from further inflicting harm on the child.<\/p>\n\n

Church volunteers brought the girl to the Mandaue City District Hospital some 300 meters away from the national shrine for treatment.<\/p>\n\n

She was later transferred to the Don Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (DVSMMC) in Cebu City.<\/p>\n\n

PO1 Juliet Trogo of the Women’s Desk of Police Station 1, said the church security guard took custody of Abao while they called for police assistance.<\/p>\n\n

Abao was later turned over to the DVSMMC psychiatric ward while police locate her common-law-husband who works as a baker in the nearby Barangay Centro.<\/p>\n\n

Abao, a native of Bohol, lives in Barangay Cambaro located about a kilometer away from the national shrine with her common-law husband, the girl’s stepfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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