Those still alive pretended to be dead as troops moved through the first and second floors, kicking the bodies to see if anyone stirred. To Aquino’s horror, the Japanese tried to rape his fourteen-year-old maid, who at this point had been dead for almost ten hours. Troops tore the dead teen’s panties off but found rigor mortis prevented them from parting her legs. “She was dead. She was cold,” Aquino later testified. “No sane man would do that.”
