Baby-sitter kills child with kitchen knife

KORONADAL CITY --- A seemingly depressed 30-year-old woman killed with a kitchen knife her niece she was baby-sitting in Barangay Caloocan here Wednesday.

The South Cotabato Provincial Police Office identified the suspect as Marilou Manansala Bayno.

Bayno was immediately arrested by responding personnel of the Koronadal City Police, acting on reports from neighbors and barangay officials.

In an initial report to the SCPPO, the Koronadal City Police Office said probers and forensic experts have found out that Bayno repeatedly stabbed her toddler niece with a knife in the abdomen, causing the child’s death.

Personnel of the women and children’s unit of the KCPO are now preparing criminal charges against Bayno.

She is now clamped down in a detention facility of the KCPO. (John Felix Unson)