EDITORIAL - Nothing sacred or taboo

A recent incident that happened in Cebu is calling attention to how some people no longer see boundaries when it comes to committing crimes or satisfying their perverse desires.

Last week in Carcar City a corpse was dug up from a cemetery and desecrated. Because police investigators found strong evidence indicating such, they suspect that the corpse had been undressed and molested.

A person of interest has been invited for questioning regarding the incident, but so far police have no other strong leads.

It is one thing for some deviants to commit rape, pleasure themselves in public, peep on others, or do other acts considered indecent, but to do what they did to someone who is already dead goes beyond what even the most hardened criminals call decent. It’s just plain perverse.

When it comes to committing crime is there still anything sacred anymore? Well, apparently not. Because just last month a woman lost her wallet to a group of pickpockets inside the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño in Cebu City.

It was all caught on video; a woman is praying in the candle-lighting area when she is deliberately surrounded by a group of six women, one of them eventually dips into her bag to get her purse before walking calmly away.

It can be argued that Cebuanos consider the basilica the most sacred place in the island because it houses the miraculous image of the Holy Child. And for a criminal gang to target such a holy place is an offense of the highest degree indeed.

We hope that the police find and apprehend the perpetrators of both incidents soon.

Both incidents should serve as a warning for all of us to secure ourselves and what is ours. Because it seems that for some criminals and perverts, nothing is sacred or taboo anymore.