Parricide, rape charges up vs. pa

By Florence F. Hibionada

Parricide and and rape charges are being readied against a 39 year-old father who raped and killed his fifteen-year old daughter last week.

In what stands to be the first ever celebrated crime in Lemery, Iloilo, Renante Almentrante alias Boyet got more than his share of 'fame' and public attention days after the crime was committed.

In a report gathered by The News Today, the suspect's trouble began when his hapless daughter reported the sexual abuse to her mother.
 
In a confrontation, Almentrante stabbed the victim in front of his shocked wife minutes after hearing firsthand of his daughter's accounts that pointed to him as the sole suspect.  He then attempted to take his own life and stabbed himself several times.
Both were rushed to the hospital where the daughter died and the suspect-father remains and is expected t to survive his injuries.

Radio interviews heard the distraught mother asking for immediate filing of the case against her husband saying she wants justice served not only over the sexual abuse done to her daughter but more so on the killing itself.

“Mas gusto ko pa nga ang bana ko mapatay indi ang bata ko (I would rather my husband die rather than my daughter),” she said in between sobs.
Almentrante remains in the custody of the Lemery police.