00:00Campus journalist Sofia Marie Coquilla was found dead, brutally stabbed 38 times in her home in Tagum City, Davao del Norte.
00:09Police reports say the 19-year-old freshman at the University of the Philippines de Liman was found dead on the morning of July 9, lying in a pool of blood in her bedroom.
00:17Police are investigating robbery as a motive, but the brutal nature of the crime raises more questions.
00:23Since July 10, authorities have arrested four suspects, most of them minors.
00:27The latest was caught in Davao City with an unlicensed gun and some of the victims' belongings.
00:32Tagum Police say a 17-year-old suspect told investigators he and the group's leader took turns stabbing Coquilla after she woke up and saw them.
00:40Under the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act, children aged 15 and below cannot be held criminally responsible and are placed in intervention programs.
00:49The law faced criticism over the decades, especially after high-profile crimes involving minors.