FROM BRONCHO TO BULLET: CA allows correction in 9-year-old's death certificate in 2016

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The Court of Appeals has granted the petition of the father of a nine-year-old who died in 2016 to correct the cause of death entry in his death certificate from bronchopneumonia to a gunshot wound.

By GISELLE OMBAY, GMA Integrated News

Otherwise, they would have had to pay for Lenin’s autopsy, which he said they could not afford to pay. “Kay Marcos, sa bahagi niya, sa ngayon, sa mga karapatang pantao, bilang Pangulo ngayon, mabigyan niya ng tamang pamamaraan mula doon sa pagkaka-lapse na ginawa ng Pangulong Duterte ‘yung mga nangyaring direktang pagpatay sa mga biktima ng giyera sa droga,” he said.The lawyers' group Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services, Inc. said that the appeal to correct Lenin’s death certificate was only the first step in his quest for justice.

IDEALS called for an independent and domestic investigation while asking the Philippines to rejoin the International Criminal Court .

 

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Lenin Baylon, 9, was hit by a stray bullet in Caloocan City on Dec. 2, 2016, in a shooting incident that also killed two women. He died three days before what would have been his 10th birthday.

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