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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''DSWD-8 to hire 800 young workers in Southern Leyte'''
'''Sack yields dead girl'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281335930752
*Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/provincial/29177-sack-yields-dead-girl
*Wednesday, May 2, 2012
*Thursday, May 3, 2012
:by   Erna S. Gorne
:by Zaida delos Reyes-Palanca




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 2 (PIA) - - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional Office 8 is set to screen today the applicants for the 832 summer job young workers coming from Southern Leyte to join the nationwide Expanded Government Internship (EGIP).  
AUTHORITIES have launched a manhunt for a 27-year-old man tagged in the rape and killing of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found inside a sack dumped at the back of the victims house in Pastrana, Southern, Leyte.


According to Edna Dator of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) EGIP team will meticulously select 112 qualified youths out of 700 young applicants in Maasin City alone; the rest of the EGIP slots will be filled by 40 selected youths from each of the 18 municipalities in the province.  
Town police commander Insp. Romeo Abano identified the suspect as Allan Pulga, 27, neighbor of the victim Mary Joy Paboyo, of Barangay Cabauhan.


Right now, the said team is still screening the final list of summer job youth workers, who will participate in the internship program of government, she added.  
Abano said autopsy result showed the victim, who was reported missing on April 29, was positively molested and her head was bashed with a hard object that caused her death.


The hired applicants will work for 52 days in the community where they come from in 4Ps, Social Pension for the Indigent Elderly, Supplemental Feeding, Cash for Work and Day Care Services earning P252 per day, she said.  
Police said Pulga had no records of mental illness or drug addiction. His family said he may be under the influence of liquor when he committed the crime.
 
Most of the applicants are aged 18 to 30 years old, many are in school, a number are out-of-school youths, several have degrees and technical-vocational courses, Dator added. (PIA 8, SoLeyte)


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