STORY TO BE TOLD

COTABATO CITY, Philippines (PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Regaining consciousness, a 10-year-old girl clawed her way out of the ground and pointed her parents and the authorities to the cousin who raped her, knocked her out with a blow to the head and buried her in a shallow grave, the police said on Thursday.

Inspector Roberto Ocumen, chief of police in the town of Magpet, said the girl told investigators she was raped, then hit with a hard object on the head and buried alive by her cousin Dennis Quilaton, 21, on Sunday.

Mr Ocumen said the girl regained consciousness underground and crawled out of the freshly dug grave.

She managed to reach home through the help of some neighbours and told her parents about her ordeal.

Source: The Straits Times

Daniel with his parents Joe Jacob and Shiji Abraham, and younger sister Isabelle. He died 21 days after a swimming accident on Aug 22 left him brain-dead. His kidneys have gone to an 11-year-old girl and his corneas have gone to two different adults. -- PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE JACOB FAMILY

His farewell gift would be a gift of life.

That is how the parents of three- year-old Daniel Jacob decided that he would be Singapore's youngest solid-organ donor, allowing doctors to transplant all his usable organs after a drowning accident left him brain-dead.

Daniel's kidneys have since been given to an 11-year-old girl whose kidneys have failed, apparently due to a congenital kidney disease.

His corneas went to two different adults. One had an ulcer on the cornea, leaving him close to losing his sight.

Source: The Straits Times