The Prosecutor's Office has recommended the filing of charges against the three men who allegedly abducted and gang-raped a woman in Quezon City.
Superintendent Constante Agpaoa, chief of the Quezon City Police District’s Station 10 (Kamuning), on Friday said that arrested suspect Janzen Ruckenbrod and his two accomplices, still at large, were ordered charged with rape and abduction, without any bail recommended.
"Ang recommendation ng piskalya ay rape tapos may abduction pa (The city prosecutor recommended charges of rape and also abduction)," said Agpaoa in a radio interview.
This page requires a higher version browser The police official said the prosecutor recommended charges after results from the Crime Laboratory showed that the victim was indeed sexually abused.
"Na-consummate ang rape dahil nagpasitive sa examination sa Crime Lab [The victim tested positive for rape in the Crime Lab test]," Agpaoa said.
Ruckenbrod was arrested in his home after authorities traced a plate number to his Mitsubishi Fuzion vehicle, which was allegedly used to kidnap the victim along Quezon Avenue and bring her to the suspect's residence in Fairview.
The victim, earlier identified in reports as a certain "Jessica," was with her sister when a vehicle stopped in front of them. One of the three men inside the vehicle fired his gun, scaring off other people in the area.
The victim was then dragged inside the car, but her sister escaped and took note of the plate number of the abductors’ vehicle.
According to “Jessica," she was molested inside the car and was brought to a house in Fairview, where her abusers gang-raped her. After the act, the suspects left her naked on the road.
Investigators later found the victim's personal belongings including her clothes and bracelet at the rear part of Ruckenbrod's vehicle.
The suspect is currently detained at the QCPD-Station 10 detention cell, but will be brought to the Quezon City Jail once the court issues a commitment order for his transfer.
Authorities said they were having a hard time getting details from the suspect, since his sister who is a lawyer had advised him to invoke his right to remain silent as a criminal suspect.
Just the same, Agpaoa said they are still trying to look for Ruckenbrod's two alleged accomplices, one of whom was identified as a certain Jefferson Soriano (not the police general).
Agpaoa said they were just awaiting the issuance of an arrest warrant against Soriano and the third unidentified suspect.
The police official said Ruckenbrod comes from an affluent family and that it was possible that it was not the first time that the suspect's group had sexually assaulted women.—Mark D. Merueñas/JV
