Dear mouse,
This excerpt of the news reminds me of a former tenant—a lady whose favorite expression is that she could not exist without a man in her life.
Woo the mother and abuse the child.
This is the new modus operandi of pedophiles that have been targeting Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, as their area of operation, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) has warned.
She was a widow. Her husband died of stroke in Saudi Arabia. Months after her husband was buried, a young man suddenly turned up to their residence. She was her live-in-lover. A bum, a drug addict. He left only when all her furniture, appliances and jewelries were sold to support his drug habit. The kids were still small to realize that their mother had squandered the properties left to them by their hardworking father. The house was also put up on sale. Her salary as a secretary and the pension that she received from the Social security were not enough.
In the office, she could access the internet. And that’s when a new man came into her life.
After a week, they were already romantically involved on-line.
After a month, the guy flew from the United States. She was deliriously happy. The man loved her children, according to her. From a small apartment, he moved them to a two bedroom apartment in the city.
He went back to the US with a promise that he would come back. He sent her monthly check for expenses.
As promised he went back to the Philippines and lived in with the widow. There was no mention of marriage. But they lived comfortably.
She was always sent to shop when the kids were at home.
She noticed that her children became distant from her and her lover. They were quiet too.
No amount of toys that she bought from them could make them smile.
The man left again for the US. No monthly check came from the mail. No news where he was. His e-mail address was already cancelled. She didn’t even know his address in the US.
One of the children got sick. The doctor told him that the child was molested. He asked the other children to be subjected for examination. They were all sexually abused.
Her husband’s relatives got custody of the children. When her US-based mother’s petition for her was processed, she flew to the US without her children. She did not care. She did not lose sleep because of separation from the children.
She stayed with her old mother but was booted out when she started bringing a married
Indian boyfriend.
So my former roommate asked me to accommodate her in my extra room. I agreed. I was alone and she was also alone.
My mistake, she was not alone. Whenever I am out of the house, she brought in her lover.
I was not comfortable with it. So I asked her to leave. I did not see any remorse about what happened to her kids. And that was also one thing I did not like her to stay with me.
She can afford to let something happened to her children because of her misplaced affection, what’s more myself who is not related with her.
So scram, she goes.
The Ca t
