‘Leah’
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
You read this early today and perhaps at around 10 a.m. spot me huddled with television production executives in a hotel coffee shop, discussing a role in a TV soap opera. While I’m eager to be working again and grateful to the network bosses who want me for the project, if I were at least 10 years younger, right after the meeting I’d be marching in the streets, supporting “Leah.”
Who is “Leah?”
Here’s a backgrounder, from the Gabriela National Alliance of Women: “In exchange for helping in convent chores, ‘Leah’ became a scholar of Fr. Raul Cabonce, a parish priest of the Diocese of Butuan. ‘Leah,’ like many other young women in our country, had known only a life of poverty and hardship, and imagined stepping out of this deprivation by finishing secondary and college education. But never did she imagine that the person she knew as a servant of God, a person she trusted and with whom her mother worked as a catechist for five years, would become her sexual abuser. Soon after she graduated from high school, ‘Leah’ came out and admitted to enduring a series of sexual molestation and acts of rape since she was 17 years old, while she lived at Fr. Cabonce’s convent..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110923com4.html
1 comment
ano ito, kaso ng betrayal of 'religious' trust(aggravated by rape, or rape aggravated by betrayal of 'religious trust'? lol.
"But never did she imagine that the person she knew as a servant of God, a person she trusted and with whom her mother worked as a catechist for five years, would become her sexual abuser. Soon after she graduated from high school, ‘Leah’ came out and admitted to enduring a series of sexual molestation and acts of rape since she was 17 years old, while she lived at Fr. Cabonce’s convent."
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