MLANG, NORTH COTABATO —- Their children were laid to rest on Monday, December 20 at the private cemetery in Barangay Tawantawan here, but the Maguad couple Cruz and Lovella want justice be served and culprits be punished before the bars justice.
The Maguad siblings, Crizzle Gwenn was 18, a freshman nursing student at the University of Southern Mindanao in Kabacan, North Cotabato, she dreamed of becoming a doctor while Crizville Louise, 16, was a grader schooler who waned to be an engineer.
The couple lost their children in the hands of their working student who told them she is 16, years old and an orphan, but there are doubts to her claim, as day by day her testimonies getting thicker and lies after lies uncovered,.
Kristine, the orphan, as she claimed is not really an orphan, she has three more siblings, spread in different areas of Southern Mindanao.
A highly placed Newsline source said “She met her older sister sometime in 2020 in Davao City, where she spent overnight but the following day, a man whom she introduced as her boyfriend fetched her and brought her to North Cotabato, despite the opposition of her older sister and her brother,” since then, they haven’t heard from her until the controversial Maguad killings.
Though the case has been filed before the provincial prosecutor’s office in Kabacan, North Cotabato, Mrs. Maguad said they expect the investigators to dig deeper into the case especially that the 21-year-old accomplice of Kristine is still at-large.
But pending the decision of the court on the cases filed against the suspects, the Maguad couple said, their quest for justice will not end.-EZC
