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Date: 30 December 2010
Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20110101-312070/Salvage-cops-victim-kept-in-safe-house

STA. CRUZ, Laguna, Philippines—Former police informant Grace Capistrano-Morta, who survived an attack allegedly by two policemen, is spending the holidays in a safe house after the Department of Justice (DOJ) granted her petition to be placed under the witness protection program.

Capistrano, who had just been married with her partner Richard Morta last week, was brought to the DOJ office in San Pablo City before she was taken to an undisclosed safe house on Thursday.

“Even us were not informed where exactly they took her. I’m still waiting for her call,” Grace’s mother Amy Bautista said on Friday. (Bautista is using her maiden name after a legal separation).

The couple had been in the custody of the Laguna Provincial Police Office here since Capistrano was discharged from the hospital early this month.

They were married before a judge inside the police camp.

In November, Capistrano was abducted from her home in Angono, Rizal, allegedly by police officers Antenor Mariquit and Mario Natividad, and police asset Wilfredo Montellola.

She was four months pregnant and lost her baby in a miscarriage following her ordeal.

Capistrano survived 24 stab wounds and a bullet wound in the leg, before she was left for dead in a ravine in Pagsanjan.

Mariquit and Natividad, meanwhile, remain under police restriction at the Rizal Provincial Police Office camp in Taytay, Rizal, while the hearings continue. Montellola remains at large.

In an earlier interview, Capistrano said there were threats against her and Morta’s life since she surfaced and identified her attackers. Maricar Cinco, Inquirer Southern Luzon