Module VII: The Flor Contmplacion Story

Module VII: The Flor Contemplacion Story
Summary
Why would a government kill an innocent for something that nobody had evidence of? It easy to listen to other people or blame someone but to accuse someone of something they were irresponsible of doing. I can relate to this because that’s the governments fault for thinking they knew who the suspect was. To cancel a court day, that’s not fair because there was no court day and no witnesses involved.
Reflection
Just because the Filipinos are in other countries working, they get punished for something they weren’t responsible for. Flor Contemplacion was charged of murdering a domestic helper, Delia Maga and four-year old Chinese boy, Nicholas Huang. The case was closed for two years and Flor got arrested in Singapore. How it came about with Flor moving to Singapore and becoming a social worker. It was fairly simple because she told her husband Efren that she wanted to move for her love and her children. Efren talked to Russell and tells her they were going to eat at Aunt Neneng and Tata’s place to eat. I mean it was only obvious that Aunt Neneng was a mistress or someone in the middle of Russell’s parent’s relationship because she was always around and became more attached to Efren when Flor left the country. Russell was a really emotional and never held anything back. She was very ashamed of going to school because she’d get teased about her dad having another woman. Yeah, that’s pretty sad that Efren had the nerve to act in the kind of manner he performed. He was married for crying out loud and had kids. I don’t know what he was thinking because in my words, this called “cheating.” Some people just don’t know how to be truthful and faithful to their love one that is not present. Some Filipino men are known as “babaero” or playboy. So after Huang’s death, Delia told Flor to leave because if Huang’s parents catch Flor at their Nicholas’s house, things could get ugly. Sure enough, after the Flor left, Nicholas’s parents came home and the first thing they say is “How’s Nicholas?” It’s really sad because Maga felt she was going to get beaten up. Maga knew she had to tell them what happened to their son. Maga told Huang’s father that Nicholas died because he drowned while he was taking a bath. That was really sad because as soon as she told the father she gets punched in the face multiple times and this is a man that punched with all his might because of the disbelief and the pain after losing his only child. But there’s a catch that whenever a new person or anything new coming into a picture the people are supposed to tell the beginner what they need to be aware of or even what happened in the past for a heads up. It’s rare to have a four-year old die from taking a bath. But the catch was the parents of the boy didn’t tell Maga the boy had an epileptic. Huang’s father killed Maga with a rope leaving Huang’s father without a suspect. Then the police arrested Contemplacion because they’ve learned that Contemplacion’s name appeared in Maga’s diary. So, Contemplacion got sent to jail and made her confess that she murdered Maga and Huang but no one knew. The children visited her at Singapore jail. She told Jon-Jon and Joel to study hard and not let anything neglect their way. Then she asked Sandrex how Evelyn was doing because Sandrex was married and wondered how their relationship was. As a mother, she was always there for children and her husband and wanted the best for them. Like any other Filipino mothers, Flor Contemplacion wanted them to get the best life that she never had. While she was in jail, Filipinos in the Philippines rallied because the government in Singapore felt it was wrong and unfair because they never even went to court on the scheduled court date. I was really hurt by it because she had nothing to do with the murder and got accused. They were just unfair because the police had no proof other than just seeing her name in Maga’s diary. I believe it’s sad that people never had a chance to prove the murdering wasn’t her fault at all. A number of residents from San Pablo appeared in front of Contemplacion’s resident and rallied. Efren’s mistress appeared and lied that she was Contemplacion’s sister-in-law because she was attached to Efren. Flor went home in time before Christmas and asked his mother who Aunt Ellen was because her children tend to always talk about her. Flor asked her mother who “Aunt Helen” was. Flor went down to the fields and slaps Efren in the face without a response. Efren went after Flor and they had a big argument. Then another day and said she would sue Neneng and Efren if they’re together. Finally, the scheduled hang date for her was March 17, 1995. After going back to the cells from hearings, she looked like an actual person. Flor got hanged and died. Her body got sent back to the Philippines. Filipinos burned the Singapore flag and never received the flowers from the Philippine president. While it was getting delivered to her house, the people from San Pablo never wanted to receive the flowers and tore it apart.