A 29-year-old mother posted a video on social media showing what is deemed to be an initiation rite carried out by a group of female juveniles in Lapu-Lapu City.

The mother, alias "Karen," said she sought attention to be able to get help in locating her 13-year-old daughter. 

The girl has not come home for four days already, as of this writing, after the so-called initiation rites.

The mother seeks to have her daughter placed under counseling.

In the video, her daughter was shown to have slapped several times a blindfolded, female person of minor age.

After the video was posted, Karen received several messages from friends of her daughter requesting that the post be taken down.

Her daughter called her up, she said, using the cellphone of a friend, but as of this writing, the girl failed to come home.

She said her worries have compounded when she read lewd messages in her daughter's phone and a video of the girl smoking while recording the act. Her daughter's cellphone was left at home, the reason why she was able to check messages and videos.

Karen said her daughter started hanging out with a gang of friends in 2024 while she was in Grade 7. She said she was supposed to leave Cebu for Kuwait, but the plan was bumped off due to the disturbing behavior of her daughter.

She explained that she does not know which government agency to approach to have her daughter placed under counseling, so she resorted to social media to call the attention of the local government unit.

Karen pointed out that she has no regrets despite the bashing she got from netizens, and the legal consequences she must deal with for posting a video involving persons of minor ages.

The Lapu-Lapu City Police, on the other hand, pointed out they have not received a report or a complaint from parents of the juveniles involved in deemed “initiation rites.”

Police Lt. Col. Christian Torres, spokesperson of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office, said they are open at conducting an investigation on the incident based on the video, but they requested the mother to report the incident first at their office.

In the afternoon of Thursday, April 24, 2025, Karen informed GMA Regional TV Balitang Bisdak that she has already sought the assistance of the Lapu-Lapu City Social Welfare and Development Office.