Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Maggie de la Riva

One weekend, Voltaire and his schoolmate Florante were attending to their plots in the garden, under teacher Mr. Lorenzo's Gardening class. The garden was well laid out, fenced in by the 1x2x6 pieces of wood each student had to bring. Rows of plots were planted to eggplants one time, to pechay another time. And to lettuce and radish some time.

While attending to their garden plots, the two were talking about the recent sensational rape case that happened within the neighborhood, and was the headline in all newspapers and the biggest news on TV and radio. The
beautiful young actress Maggie de la Riva was raped. In a hotel along Luna Street, near where the boys lived. 

Everyone stayed glued to the news for weeks on end. And the boys would walk to the street where the crime happened, shaking their heads. In their young minds, such cruelty was unimaginable.

Fast Forward. The rapists were sentenced to die by electric chair. Maggie de la Riva has survived the incident and is back on television, hosting a program on the government TV station. She also did the lecture circuit talking about how people are born champions, able to rise from problems. Such a brave and beautiful woman.

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