(Posted edited, photos and video taken down as per request of my lovely readers.)
As of this morning, the video uploaded by a certain Amer Alonto has been watched 69 thousand times. The video was uploaded around midnight and shows four girls waiting for someone to come into the room with a video ready to shoot the whole setup.
Reading the comment section, I noticed five kinds of response:
1. Sympathy for the victim #justiceforhoneybee
2. Shaming the bullies (tigiran oba iran dait)
3. Asking the uploader to take down the video
4. Relatives of the victim threatening to avenge (mamatay siran bu)
5. Criticizing the parents for not raising their children well (didun botowan ka o di kadisiplina so wata na giya pun a Marawi)
Here's my two cents:
These girls I believe are young, late into the teenage years, that stage in our lives when we are still finding out who we are. We can do crazy stuffs when we are young. Moreover, we do not know what each one of them is, we do not know how nice they can actually be if they are not angry. We do not know what happened before the incident, what words were exchanged between them.
To judge solely based on a 41 seconds video is premature. Although I concede that the video looks very bad. The victim said she did not come to fight, and that she won't fight back but Fatnam kept slapping her with a watch under her palm (thus the sharp sound of her slaps).
There are also allegations that the reason why they did this is that the victim owes the boyfriend of on of the girls 1,800 pesos. But that's too shallow, isn't it?
I hope nothing more tragic will come out of this. I hope the parents of these girls will not condone their children's mistakes. Ground them if they must. Wag nang magmaratabat.
They are just kids. This event hopefully will not define who they'll become. They have so much power in their hands to turn this into a lesson and be better in the future. The rumors will die down. It's going to be okay. :)
Kids ba yan? May sariling isip na mga yan. Ok sana kung 15 yrs old pa sila, pero hindi eh. Si Fatnam matagal na syang kilala sa psg inom ng alak at paninigarilyo at ngayon gumagamit rin pala ng bawal na gamot. Anong klaseng magulang ba meron ang mga yan at bakit hindi napalaki ng maayos?!
ReplyDeleteI can't answer your questions because people are saying bad stuffs about both parties. What I'm just saying is I hope we get a lesson from this, for the parents to be aware that this is already happening in this age and that I hope that this won't turn out for the worse.
DeleteI'm rooting for a happy ending, the bullies given the commensurate punishment, the victim be compensated in whatever way, and in the near future all of them will turn out to be fine young ladies In Shaa Allah.
It's a thousand-fold better than this results to more violence involving more people.
If a person practiced sabr in trying times, Allaw swt will reward the person.