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<figure class="op-interactive"><div id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1_Container"> <ivs-player id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-vid="1435456" data-ivs-floating="1"></ivs-player> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/iframe-parent.js"></script> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script> </div></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="~//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="~//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>MANILA - A 13-year-old boy shot by a policeman had his kidneys removed by doctors without the consent of his parents, his grieving mother said Monday. </p><p>PO2 Omar Malinao of Tondo&#x27;s <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/multimedia/slideshow/04/27/17/look-secret-jail-cell-in-manila-police-station-reveals-detainees">Raxabago police station</a> said he was chasing several looters at a slaughterhouse when he tripped and accidentally pulled the trigger of his pistol on the night of March 2. </p><p>A single bullet from Molinao&#x27;s gun hit Aldrinne Pineda, a Grade 6 student who was hanging out with a friend nearby. </p><p>The wounded teenager managed to walk home and tell his family that he &quot;will fight&quot; before he was rushed to the Tondo Medical Center, his mother Michelle said. </p><p>During Pineda&#x27;s surgery, Michelle said his doctor gave her a container with her son&#x27;s kidneys, telling her the organs had to be removed due to extensive damage from the gunshot. </p><p>&quot;Hindi niya po sa akin sinabi na tatanggalin ang organ ng anak ko. Hindi po siya nagsalita; basta ipinakita niya po sa akin, tanggal na po ang organ ng anak ko,&quot; Michelle told DZMM. </p><p>(The doctor did not tell me that he will remove my kid&#x27;s organ. The doctor did not say anything, and instead just showed me that my child&#x27;s organ has been taken out.) </p><p>Michelle said her son could have survived if his kidneys were not taken out. </p><p>&quot;Lumalaban po iyung anak ko... talagang malakas pa po ang anak ko. Naniniwala po ako na kung hindi nila tinanggal iyung kidney, mayroon pa pong pag-asa na buhay ang anak ko,&quot; </p><p>(My son was fighting, he was strong. I believe that had they not removed his kidney, he would have had a chance to live.) </p><p>Pineda&#x27;s family has sought help from the Commission on Human Rights to lodge a complaint against the hospital after the agency issues the results of an autopsy it conducted on the slain teenager. </p><p>Malinao, meanwhile, is facing a charge of murder before the Manila City Prosecutor&#x27;s Office.</p><p>A friend of Pineda has disputed the policeman&#x27;s account of the killings, saying the officer fired his gun after being teased by neighborhood children. <strong>-- Report from Lyza Aquino, ABS-CBN News </strong></p>

<p>A 13-year-old boy shot by a policeman had his kidneys removed by doctors without the consent of his parents, his grieving mother said Monday. </p>

A 13-year-old boy shot by a policeman had his kidneys removed by doctors without the consent of his parents, his grieving mother said Monday.