By FR. SHAY CULLEN
OLONGAPO CITY — The most shocking and outrageous case of child rape in need of help is a 13 year old victim of gang rape. It happened in the Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Orion, Bataan by a gang of ten teenagers, minors who should be in rehabilitation but are roaming free to this day. The child is traumatized and in shock after the ordeal and scarred for life. She will get all the therapy, protection and legal assistance she needs at the Preda home for girls. The abusers even videotaped the multiple crime on a mobile phone and immediately distributed it far and wide by the cell phone using blue tooth technology boasting of their exploits. Its damming evidence.
Thousands of children are victimized every day and yet few abusers are convicted. Local official frequently arrange a pay off. The sex tourists enjoy protection and impunity from prosecution and we the defenders are the ones prosecuted, we appeal to readers to write to the Philippine Embassy or Department of Justice, Padre Faura, Manila to have the fake charges of libel, made by an American suspect against our social workers, dropped.
Take the ongoing case in Zambales of an American who is accused of raping his four (4) year old daughter whom he has now abandoned. Despite the account of the little girl, the testimony of the mother and the medico legal report confirming severe abuse and the filing of the criminal charges the abuser has not been called to a preliminary investigation.
Instead of filing a counter affidavit followed by a swift preliminary investigation the accused filed a motion to have another medico legal examination by the NBI, and requested that the child be taken from the mother and given to the Social Services. The accused has filed a counter charge against the mother.
Around the campus of the University of the Philippines posters declare “Justice delayed is justice denied”. The student body is supporting the family of a young student Cris Anthony Mendez who was allegedly murdered during a fraternity hazing ritual as he was being inducted into the Sigma Rho Fraternity. The fraternities, have mostly good people, many are members of the elite of Philippine society. Most help each other prosper and serve society to the best of their ability.
Some members can corrupt a good fraternity and can turn a section of it into a cult and use hazing and fear as a way to instill obedience, secrecy and have control over new members.
The family of public administration student Cris Anthony Mendez have little chance of justice. The family fears that powerful persons behind the scenes will work to block an indictment or a public trial if ever a member of the fraternity is charged.
The call of University Vice President Attorney Marvic Leonen for witnesses to come forward. No fraternity has been openly accused but the officials of Sigma Rho were placed on preventive suspension after the death of Cris Mendez.
As former Justice Secretary-designated Simeon A. Datumanong said, The Sigma Rho Fraternity “…has distinguished members who have proven themselves worthy of public service. We have, or the Sigma Rho Fraternity has, former Senate President Salonga, former Senate President Angara, the late Senate President Fernan and now Senate President Drilon”. Former Senate President Jovito R. Salonga resigned as a member of the UP Sigma Rho a few weeks ago when the scandal broke.
We know from hard experience that successful prosecution is a hard road to travel. We hope the new acting secretary of justice will reform the system. Despite powerful evidence charges of child sex abuse are too frequently dismissed or prosecutor make no resolution for years.
We at the Preda Children’s Home, have many pending cases of abused children who are seeking healing through justice. Many of the accused are still out there perhaps abusing other children so we are going to hire our own female lawyer and a paralegal officer. Is there a lawyer or paralegal ready to serve the children, it’s a well paid job and what better work is there than helping children, the most vulnerable of all. Interested applicants can contact the Preda Center, Olongapo City (09178362274) END
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September 28th, 2007 at 8:01 am
The one thing worse than rape is one who tells lies about any instance, whether rape, theft, murder or whatever. After all, that is what is the basis behind libel: A lie told to the public in writing as the truth when the writer KNOWS it’s a lie!
Here we have an instance of a lie in the second paragraph: “The sex tourists enjoy protection and impunity from prosecution and we the defenders are the ones prosecuted, we appeal to readers to write to the Philippine Embassy or Department of Justice, Padre Faura, Manila to have the fake charges of libel, made by an American suspect against our social workers, dropped.”
First of all, the writer knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that the case mentioned has nothing to do with “sex tourists” so that is the first lie. The second lie is that sex tourists enjoy protection and impunity. No, but Shay Cullen sure does, otherwise the case of libel against him would be in court now, and the case of rape that was filed against him many years ago would not have been pulled from court by interferance by the Office of the President, so he never was tried for an act of rape he did against a seven year old child. More on that in a minute.
First of all, the event being discussed is an act of local minors, not sex tourists, is it not? So why blame someone (without naming names, of course) that had absolutely nothing to do with the act reported in the local media, as Shay Cullen has done here?
Furthermore, why have persons who have absolutely no idea of any facts of a case (other than the side espoused by the respondent) interfere in Filipino Justice by writing to the Philippine Embassies, which are not, of course, in the Philippines, but in foreign countries to represent the Philippines to the foreign country in which it is located?
Is that not a slap in the face of every Filipino by a foreigner to make such a suggestion?
In this article by Shay Cullen, he has maligned the Filipino Justice system and mentioned a child abuse case that is supposedly in court (a violation of RA 7610, by the way). He has even made a plea for a -specifically- female lawyer to represent Preda, indicating gender bias. One wonders what his present and past lawyers, such as Sergio P. Cruz, Manuel Rosapapan, Jr., Genaro Montefalcon and Marc Raymond Cesa and his father, also one of Shay Cullen’s attorneys and all of them good and able attorneys, think of this call?
I am the father of a raped child. The man who raped my daughter was none other than Shay Cullen, who campaigns tirelessly to get children OUT of jail on one hand and begs to put children IN jail on the other, such as in this case he mentions. Oh, and by the way, my son is the accused rapist, and Cullen had the gall to have the case archived because he claims that my daughter will never testify against her brother.
He is SO RIGHT. On the witness stand she would point to him as the real rapist, and worse, documentation would back her up, such as the two (that’s right, an original and a forged duplicate) log books that Shay Cullen submitted in his defense claiming that my daughter was in his care several hours before she was picked up at her school, statements that he made that do not match DSWD or police reports, so Shay Cullen cannot afford the case to go to trial, but he and some of his staff worked so hard to get the case into court only to shelve the case as soon as they could to prevent further damning testimony.
What better cover for a spy than to accuse other spys of spying? Shay Cullen is not a spy, but then again, he accuses others of libel and other crimes that he himself is involved with, YET HAS NOT GONE TO COURT.
Oh, and by the way - the call to remove the complaint for libel is the case I filed as soon as I found out about the libel. Shay Cullen is basically stating that libel is done on the day it was written, and that if never discovered, is never a libel, BUT if discovered, the libelled person HAS NO RIGHTS FOR COMPLAINT. That is the case he has with the Department of Justice, and that is the case he is begging people to demand that be thrown out of court.
Now, is that the work of an honest man? See more facts and documents on http://www.preda-facts.info. Pictures DO speak louder than words.
My name is Alan Dale Edmonds, father of a raped child, and I will not allow Shay Cullen to anonomously libel me in any way so that he can avoid the justice he so richly deserves.