MARIVELES, Bataan: Police said on Saturday that they continued to hunt for a brother-in-law turned outlaw who raped, hacked with a sickle and attempted to torch a 10-year-old girl who is the younger sister of her live-in partner.

The Grade 5 girl who was left for dead sensed that the man she called as Kuya Mark was gone, apparently to get a match, ran towards the highway. She sought the help of the passing tricycle driver who brought her to the police station.

Mariveles police brought her to the Bataan General Hospital where she was confined for more than a week.

Supt. Joel Tampis, Mariveles police chief, said that after raping the girl, Mark Anthony Garcia, 21, jobless and resident of barangay Cabcaben in Mariveles City, hacked the victim several times in different parts of the body with a sickle.

The girl’s father said that Garcia was the live-in partner of his 15-year-old daughter. “Naghiwalay sila at siguro gumanti sa isa kong anak [They parted ways and he may have vented his ire on my other daughter],” he said.

The father is a security guard while the mother is a factory worker in Mariveles.

The little girl said that she was about to leave school for home at 4 p.m.on November 19 when her Kuya Mark hauled her to a tricycle.

She said that she was brought to the suspect’s farm.

She said that when she got the chance, she ran and got the assistance of a tricycle driver who brought her to the Mariveles police station.

Mayor Jesse Concepcion of Mariveles said that she asked the social work in the municipality to extend financial assistance to the parents of the victim for use in hospitalization and pocket money for filing the case in court.

Concepcion said that he also asked the social welfare to follow-up the case and speed-up the arrest of suspect.