MANILA, Philippines - Forensic experts who examined a body exhumed in Labrador, Pangasinan on March have determined that it is not the body of missing University of the Philippines (UP) students, Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno.
This was learned Wednesday during an interview with members of the group Desaperecidos and the mother of Cadapan, Erlinda, at the Court of Appeals.
Mrs. Cadapan had attended the hearing on the writ of amparo and writ of habeas corpus petitions, which the two mothers of the missing students filed before the Court of Appeals.
Cadapan, Empeño and farmer Manuel Merino were abducted allegedly by the military on
June 26, 2006 in Hagonoy, Bulacan.
Hopes that the body could belong to one of the missing coeds were raised after witness Raymond Manalo said that he saw members of the military kill Merino in Limay, Bataan in November 2006 while a report said that the three were later seen in the house of an Army sergeant in Bolinao, Pangasinan sometime in 2006.
But on Wednesday, members of the Desaperidos - an organization of families seeking justice for their missing loved ones - learned that experts have found dissimilarity in the dental features of the exhumed body and those of Sherlyn