Philippine Mayor Charged in Death of ‘Gift’ Student
<i> Reuters</i>
MANILA —
The mayor of a Philippine town and six of his aides were charged Monday with raping and killing a student they allegedly gave him as “a gift.”
Prosecutors said 20-year-old Eileen Sarmenta, a student at the state-run University of the Philippines, was killed in June after she and a male friend were abducted by aides to Mayor Antonio Sanchez of Calauan, south of Manila.
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