Vhong Navarro mauling---vendetta or extortion?

As a police beat reporter before, I was trained to spot a liar and someone who speaks the truth. It is essential in our profession that your eyes are trained to spot someone who tells you the truth or those who does not.

Anyway, I have some observations about this Vhong Navarro thing.

First, Mr. Navarro claims that the entire thing was a setup for extortion. My question is--if that is extortion, then, why did his captors maul him and even accommodated him to the police station?

The "normal" thing for extortionists is to keep their "captive" alive and well, until the money arrives. So, why was Vhong released? Who will get the money, Vhong? He was released right and at the police station pa? Are we being made to believe that this whole thing was an extortion when the very facts itself show that it was not an extortion thing.

Second, why was Mr. Navarro mauled? Police investigators have this term called "crime of passion." For example, in a stab wound, a killer would just stab his victim once or thrice but not 23 times. Killings involving couples or paramours, the normal number of stab wounds reach around 20x because there is an emotional element there.

In Vhong Navarro's case, he was severely mauled as if his attackers were probably shouting or accusing him of something while mauling him. What was he being accused of?

Third, Vhong Navarro's pants were lowered down and he was reportedly molested. Vhong claims that his attackers took shots at his genitals. He was even made to admit before the camera that he molested the girl.

If this is an extortion attempt, then why did the captors even went to the extent of taking shots at Vhong's genitals? I mean, what is the use of it? Will the captors show these photos before Vhong's relatives? Can they just take his face and photos as evidence?

Several people shared this story with me, and in the interest of the public, I will share this story here.

According to several people, there is a possibility that there was an unfortunate incident that happened between Vhong Navarro and the girl. This incident could possibly be sexual in nature. The girl might have felt violated.
The girl then went to her barkadas, who happened to be Cedric Lee, and sought vendetta.
That January 23 incident was a setup possibly to teach Vhong Navarro a lesson. What is that lesson? Let Cedric Lee explains it.