COTABATO CITY: Worried fathers turned over their illegal drug-dependent children to the police and village officials here, afraid they might end up dead, with the intensified drive against drugs and crimes.

Samad, a resident of Barangay Poblacion Mother in Cotabato City, said he was glad his 16-year-old daughter agreed to voluntarily surrender to the police.

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