Servando’s fellow neophytes testify at DOJ probe

Two of Guillo Servando's fellow neophytes who survived the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity's initiation rites on Thursday testified on the death of the 18-year-old sophomore student.

The two survivors, whose names are being withheld because they are minors, were presented during the Department of Justice's preliminary investigation on Servando's killing.

 

Attending the DOJ's first preliminary probe on the matter was Servando's father, Aurelio.

 

Servando, a second-year student of the De La Salle University-College of St. Benilde, was said to have undergone initiation rites of the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity inside a Makati residence.

Following the rites, the victim was brought to a hospital but was later declared dead on arrival by attending physicians at the Philippine General Hospital in Manila.

 

Those charged for alleged violation of Republic Act 8049 or the Anti-Hazing Law were:

 

 

Authorities have earlier said that apart from the two hazing survivors, also planned to be presented as witnesses are frat members Kurt Michael Almazan and Luis Solomon Arevalo alias "Louie" who earlier surrendered to authorities, as well as Jomar Pajarito, the caretaker of the Makati residence where the initiation rites were held.

 

The two suspects who surrendered, initially identified as Primero and Segundo but later identified as Arevalo and Almazan, have already been provisionally accepted to the Witness Protection Program. — Mark Merueñas/RSJ, GMA News