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The Maggie de la Riva Story: God Why Me - A Film That Exposes the Injustice and Violence Against Wom



Jaime José was the first to enter the death chamber. As he was strapped to the chair, he entered a state of shock after being sedated. He spent his final moments weeping as his face was covered with a leather mask, his bare feet resting on a wet block of quarry stone. Among the witnesses was his father, José, who had promised his son that he would be present in his final moments. His mother, Dolores, was at Malacanang Palace for a private audience with the President to appeal for a pardon, which Marcos declined because of the widespread public anger over the incident. José was executed when three prison guards activated switches to the electric chair, of which only one was the live switch. After the initial shock, when the prison doctor found him to be still alive, it was debated whether he should be taken back to his cell since the first shock didn't kill him. He was given another application of current and was pronounced dead at 3:20 p.m.


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those people are SERIAL RAPISTS!! maggie is not the 1st! and if they are freed she will not be the last! so all of you clean and conscientious individuals here who advocated for non death penalty for those rapist, may you be raped and sodomized in Hell by these same demons! then you will feel at least how it felt to be in the receiving end!


i wont say na evil si maggie for pushing death on those men who raped her but i can say that she fails in the human compassion department. i live in the states so maybe thats why i am against capital punishment. i was a rape victim myself and while her ordeal lasted for 2 and a half hours, mine was done by 2 men in many occassions from the age of 4 up to when i was 13. i have forgiven those men even before they went to jail for their crime and have moved on with my life.. i am working now as a counselor for unwed mothers, rape victims and other disadvantaged women. i believe that no one deserves to be put to death no matter what his/her sin may be, let god take away the life he creates. i am not a saint, or am i am pretending to be saint-like. but certainly, i do agree with the saying to err is human, but to forgive is divine.


We can only say what we believe but it will be different story if we will be put in the place of the victim. But one thing is sure. If a thing was allowed by God, it will be ultimately for the good and interest of the those whose fear HIm.


Bakit sa panahon natin ngayon wala pang naconvict na mayaman puro n lang nadismissed ang kaso dahil may inpluwensya at may pera dahil mayaman cla,tayong mga mahirap ndi pa napa2tunayan n may kasalanan convict na agad.tama lang yan n may bitay para matakot ang lahat n gumawa ng masama sa kapwa nila mayamam o mahirap.saludo po q kay mr. president marcos nakamit ni ms. maggie dela riva ang hustiya sa truma at bangu2ot na dinanas po ninyo saludo po ako sa lakas ng loob at pani2wala ipaglaban ang karapatan ntin mga kaba2ihan.thanks po god bless !


js Says:October 4th, 2012 at 12:34 amsa rape case ni maggie ,dahil hindi siya pinatay kung sa america nangyari yung rape na yun maari 25 years ang sentence bawat isa sa kanila ,within 12-14 years sa loob ,ma paparole sila with good behavior ,malas lang nila walanghiya yung presidente naka upo noon..


sa rape case ni maggie ,dahil hindi siya pinatay kung sa america nangyari yung rape na yun maari 25 years ang sentence bawat isa sa kanila ,within 12-14 years sa loob ,ma paparole sila with good behavior ,malas lang nila walanghiya yung presidente naka upo noon..


The complainant was now completely naked before the four men, who were kneeling in front of her and feasting their eyes on her private parts. This ordeal lasted for about ten minutes, during which the complainant, in all her nakedness, was asked twice or thrice to turn around. Then Pineda picked up her clothes and left the room with his other companions. The complainant tried to look for a blanket with which to cover herself, but she could not find one.


Their story is that they and their co-accused Pineda had gone to the Ulog Cocktail Lounge somewhere in Mabini street in Manila, and there killed time from 9:30 in the evening of June 25 until closing time, which was about 3:30 in the early morning of the next day. At the cocktail lounge they had listened to the music while enjoying some drinks. Between them they had consumed a whole bottle of whisky, so much so that at least Aquino became drunk, according to his own testimony. They had been joined at their table by a certain Frankie whom they met only that night. Come time to go home, their new acquaintance asked to be dropped at his home in Cubao. The five men piled into the red-bodied, black topped two-door convertible Plymouth (Pontiac) car of Jaime Jose, and with Pineda at the wheel repaired to Cubao After dislodging their new friend, Pineda steered the car to España Extension to bring Aquino to his home in Mayon Street. But somewhere in España Extension before the Rotonda a small car whizzed to them almost hitting them. They saw that the driver was a woman. Pineda gave chase and coming abreast of the small car he shouted, "Putang ina mo, kamuntik na kaming mamatay." The woman continued on her way. Now Pineda saying "let us teach her a lesson," sped after her and when she swerved ostensibly to enter a gate, Pineda stopped his car behind being hurriedly got down, striding to the small car, opened the door and started dragging the girl out. Both Jose and Aquino confirm the presence of another woman inside the girl's car, who helped the girl struggle to get free from Pineda's grip; and that the struggle lasted about ten minutes before Pineda finally succeeded in pushing the girl into the red convertible. All the three accused insist they did nothing to aid Pineda: but they also admit that they did nothing to stop him.


The striptease-act-for-a-fee story on which the defense theory is anchored, defies one's credulity and reason, and had utterly to counteract the evidence for the prosecution, particularly the complainant's testimony and Dr. Brion's medical report and testimony. We quote with approval the able dissertion of the trial judge on this point:


Finally, it is odd that not one of these men should have mentioned this circumstances during their interview with anyone, either the press, their police interrogator, the person who negotiated their surrender (as in the case of Aquino) or even their counsel. One cannot escape the very strong suspicion that this story is a last ditch, desperate attempt to save the day for the accused. It truly underscores the hopelessness of their stand and projects all the more clearly their guilt.


Then there is the incident of the men's stripping themselves. Why was there need for this? The Court realizes that in its desperate need of an explanation for Maggie's positive identification of Cañal as the man with the tattoo mark on his right buttock, the defense concocted the sickeningly incident story that the four men removed their underclothing in the presence of a woman simply "because it was hot." What kind of men were these who were so devoid of any sense of decency that they thought nothing of adding insult to injury by not only inducing a woman a strip before them, but for forcing her to perform before a naked audience? And then they have gall to argue that "nothing" happened. For males of cold and phlegmatic blood and disposition it could be credible, but not for men of torrid regions like ours where quick passions and hot tempers are the rule rather than the exception!


3.Other evidence and considerations exist which indubitably establish the commission of successive rapes by the four appellants. Upon Miss De la Riva's arrival at her house in the morning of June 26, 1967, she immediately told her mother, " Mommy Mommy, I have been raped. All four of them raped me." This utterance, which is part of the res gestae, commands strong probative value, considering that it was made by the complainant to her mother who, in cases of this nature was the most logical person in whom a daughter would confide the truth. Aquino and Canal would make capital of the fact that Miss De la Riva stated to the reporters on the morning of June 26, that she was not abused. Her statement to the press is understandable. At that time the complainant, who had not yet consulted her family on a matter which concerned her reputation as well as that of her family, and her career, was not then in a position to reveal publicly what had happened to her. This is one reason why the complainant did not immediately inform the authorities of the tragedy that befell her. Another reason is that she was threatened with disfiguration. And there were, of course, the traumas found by Dr. Brion on different parts of the complainant's body. Could they, too, have been self-inflicted? Or, as suggested, could they possibly have been inflicted by appellant Pineda alone, when the story given by the other three is that Pineda and the complainant were left in the hotel room for only three or four minutes, and that they came out to join them in what they would picture to be a cordial atmosphere, the complainant even allegedly suggesting that she be dropped on a spot where people would reasonably presume her to have come from a studio? Equally important is the complainant's public disclosure of her tragedy, which led to the examination of her private parts and lay her open to risks of future public ridicule and diminution of popularity and earnings as a movie actress. 2ff7e9595c


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