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TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines ? The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in Eastern Visayas arrested on Friday night one of the region's most wanted persons in a remote village in Surigao del Sur.
CIDG-8 regional chief Superintendent Leo Quevedo said the CIDG arrested Nehemias Maceda, 56, in Barangay (village) Pocto, a village of Hinatuan town, Surigao del Sur, while he was preaching to around 70 person inside a house past 7 p.m.
"He (Maceda) was a lay minister of the Seventh Day Adventist and had been in a fugitive for the past 13 years," Quevedo said on Monday.
He said Maceda was the prime suspect in a rape case involving a six-year-old child that took place in 1992 in Barangay Bongbong, San Francisco town in Southern Leyte.
Maceda was no. 7 among the region's most notorious criminals with a P140,000 reward money offered for his arrest.
Quevedo said the suspect allegedly turned his victim into his sex slave, an act discovered three years after the first incident.
He said the victim?s mother had brought her daughter to a doctor, thinking that she might have an ailment.
The alleged rape was discovered during the medical examination of the child, who was nine years old at the time of the examination and had admitted her ordeal to the doctor, Quevedo said. /Inquirer
