• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
A reward of P50,000 is being offered by Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez for any information that could lead to the solution of the death of 15-year-old Pearl Joy Galve.
Her body was found on Aug. 13, inside a sugarcane plantation at Hacienda San Roque, Barangay Cubay, La Carlota City, Negros Occidental.
Galve, a Grade 10 student of Sum-ag National High School in Bacolod City, was buried on Monday.
The minor was reported missing on July 29, before her decomposing body was found by a laborer inside a canefield.
“If there is a recommendation to increase that (reward), I will wait for police city director Col. Joeresty Coronica to give the proposal, and I will consider that,” Benitez said.
Aside from the Bacolod City Police Office and La Carlota City Police Station, the National Bureau of Investigation and the Commission on Human Rights are also investigating the incident.
In a meeting with Jennifer Galve, mother of the victim, Benitez said he assured her that the city government will do everything to apprehend the culprit behind her daughter’s death. | GB
