July 20, 2004

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  Drunk Filipino man nails wife's mouth shut, then beats her to death

  
  

   

  
  

  Canadian Press

  
  

  July 19, 2004

  
  

  MANILA, Philippines (AP) -Rodolfo Porras, 40, returned home to his house Friday night, got into an argument with his wife Vilma, 40, and then proceeded to beat her.

  
  

  The couple's 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son watched, too afraid to call for help, as Porras strangled his wife, slammed her head against a wall, drove nails through her mouth and the backs of her knees, hammered her two hands, poured boiling water on her body and burned her skin with a hot iron.

  
  

  He then fell asleep, woke up the next morning and prepared breakfast for his family. He only realized he had killed his wife, who was blind from previous beatings, when his son tried to feed her and discovered she was dead.

  
  

   

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