Acting City Police Director Supt. Leo Irwin Agpangan yesterday said that he has ordered an investigation on the claims of a 16-year-old girl from Metro Manila that she was abducted in Bacolod City Saturday.

Insp. Leilani Garcia of the Women and Children’s Protection Center has been assigned to the case, he said.

Agpangan said that the girl, whose name he withheld, reported that at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday, while she was walking at Gatuslao Street in front of the Bacolod Museum coming from the Capitol Lagoon, a van with three male passengers stopped in front of her.

One of them alighted and tried to grab her cellular phone and when she resisted, the suspect forced her into the van, Agpangan said.

He added that the suspects blindfolded the victim and brought her in a warehouse in Bacolod City, where she was held captive for three days and allegedly experienced “mental torture”.

“One of the suspects took pity on her and let her escape after three days. She already underwent a therapy and medical examination”, Agpangan told the DAILY STAR.

The medical results, however, showed that the victim was not molested.

Based on the description she gave to the National Bureau of Investigation, the suspects are between 24 and 25 years old, of medium build, and spoke in Ilonggo.*APN

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