College couple charged with infanticide

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines – Two students of a university in Kabankalan City in Negros Occidental have been accused of killing their newborn baby on Saturday.

The infanticide complaint was filed with the Kabankalan City Prosecutor’s Office against a 20-year-old and her 19-year-old boyfriend on Monday.

Superintendent German Garbosa, chief of Kabankalan City police, said the female student is under hospital arrest at the Lorenzo D. Zayco District Hospital while her boyfriend is detained in the police station.

Investigation showed that the baby was delivered in the boarding house of the female student with the assistance of her boyfriend around 11 p.m. on Friday. The male student threw the baby in a banana plantation behind the boarding house and confessed what he did to the landlady.

The landlady and the school security guard found the infant and brought her to the Lorenzo D. Zayco District Hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival.