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'AKO NAGLUWA DIYAN. ANAK KO 'YAN'

Parents insist the boy they buried was Kulot


Parents of Reynaldo "Kulot" de Guzman insisted that they buried on Wednesday was their son amid the police's insistence that it was not the 14-year-old boy.

"Anak ko ho talaga iyan. Ako ho nagpalaki diyan. Lahat ng palatandaan nandyan. Anak ko 'yan," De Guzman's father, Eduardo Gabriel, said before the boy was brought to his final resting place at the Pasig Public Cemetery.

His wife, Lina, said the body that they buried had a scar from a syringe wound on the neck and a wart on the feet.

She said these two signs were on the body found with more than 20 stab wounds in a creek in Gapan City, Nueva Ecija last week.

The Philippine National Police claimed on Monday that the body was not De Guzman's based on a DNA test.

PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Dionardo Carlos said that brothers of the boy claimed De Guzman was circumcised, but the body found in Gapan City was not circumcised.

The Public Attorney's Office, meanwhile, clarified that the boy recovered from the creek was circumcised, but with an "overgrowth."

Lina also clarified claims that she was not the boy's biological mother.

"Amin talaga iyan. Dugo't laman namin iyan. Ako ang nagluwa diyan. Malaking hirap ko dyan. Anak ko 'yan," she said.

She added that the face of the boy they buried was very similar with her husband, Eduardo, which is why there were sure that they are burying the right body.

De Guzman was last seen alive with 19-year-old Carl Angelo Arnaiz.

Caloocan City policemen said they killed Arnaiz in a gunfight after robbing taxi driver Tomas Bagcal.

Bagcal had confirmed that Arnaiz robbed him on August 18, but claimed the police's killing of the teenager seemed scripted. —with a report from Saleema Refran/ALG, GMA News

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