Ericka: the name of the victim, recently turned 15 last July, an active church youth, grade 8 student of Pines National High School was found dead with 21 stab wounds in Pacdal, Baguio City. Gruesome.
Last Monday when Ericka’s mother and older sister came to say something. They have been searching and asking for Ericka in their Barangay, close friends, classmates and decided they will go around the city to post a “missing girl” poster. Ericka has been missing for a few days.
When they were at the Pacdal Barangay hall to paste the poster, someone said that the girl on the picture looked like the unidentified body found earlier that day in a mountain side and was brought to La Paz Funeral homes. Crossing their fingers, they went to La Paz to identify the victim and she was Ericka.
The Police examined her body and found out that she was dead for at least three days.
The Initial Story:
Ericka was like any other teenager. Makulit, malambing, maalalahanin. A good sister to her siblings and according to her classmates, funny and mabait. All descriptions were positive. One day, she met someone in Facebook. An older guy. This guy courted her and became her boyfriend. According to her friends and classmates, her attitude changed when she began dating with her “boyfriend”. From being funny and mabait in school, she started to stare away in the middle of the class and sometimes cry in between. Her parents noticed and they found out about the relationship when they saw text message conversations between the two.
The natural reaction of Ericka’s parents and family were to stop the relationship between the two. The parents asked her about the man’s name and according to her, the man’s name was Jay Odellubre, a call center agent. Immediately we did a search online using Google and Facebook and found no one with that particular name useful for identification. The parents continued to ask around and someone said that they saw the man who Ericka was with at the University of Baguio. And so with the help of a Kagawad, they went to UB to do a search and through the records saw the real name of the man was Jason Rebolledo who was 23 years old.
The parents accompanied Ericka to DSWD, Medical exam, Police and filed a case for Seduction of Minor. Allegedly, their relationship started in Facebook with Jayson courting Ericka. A 23 year old courting an 8th grader.
One week after, she went missing. Her parents searched everywhere and even asked the assistance of the Police and the DSWD. Last monday, her body was found at a mountain side at Amsing, Pacdal, Baguio city with multiple stab wounds, 11 on her face.
As of this post, the suspect lawyered up and together with his parents surrendered to the Police and admitted the killing. According to Bombo Radyo the suspect Jason Rebolledo has 2 children and his wife is pregnant.
He is now being questioned at the Baguio City Police Office. A seperate report on Sunstar said that the victim agreed to meet the suspect after several conversations on Facebook. On the first meeting, the man forced the girl into having ***, but the victim refused and walked out, but on their next meeting last June 19, the girl finally yielded to the man's demand and was again repeated on July 10. The victim's family suspected Ericka may have been pregnant after they read the text messages between the two.
Below are the pictures of Ericka and the Man who ended her life.
Points to Ponder:
1. Ericka’s parents are hard working. The father is a skilled laborer and the mother is a vendor. None of them are alcoholic, on drugs or gamble. They are the usual parents trying hard to survive bring food to the table and keep their kids in school. I saw how they took care of their kids. Urging them to join church activities and trying their best to support the education of their children. Those who know the family can say that the parents are doing their best and it is unfair for people to judge them without knowing the real story. They are not perfect parents but they are trying their best.
2. What happened to Ericka was sad. And most of us agree that she was a victim of teenage love. Probably promised with sweet words used by the suspect. For argument sake that there was indeed a friction of love, it is against norms in this country for a 23 year old to have a “relationship” with an 8th grader. If you are a parent of an 8th grade daughter, will you let her have a boyfriend?
3. Ericka’s parents do not own a computer and so they let their children “research” at the computer shops in their neighborhood and part of their research is the social media we all call FACEBOOK. This social media is good for communication, but sometimes it is also being used by evil minded people.
4. LAWS FOR REGULATION on Computer shops should be implemented specially on the time that minors are allowed to use the internet. No minors should be allowed to stay very late at a computer shop.
A blog about this story was posted on the website watwatworld (click the link to read in full) and the author claimed to personally know the victim’s family.
Girl Age 16 from Baguio City, Raped and Killed by a Guy He Met in Facebook
Originally Posted by Motownkid
How do you "meet" complete strangers on Facebook?..
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