SIX days after her daughter went missing, Marife Silador received a phone call at home.
The voice she heard made her feel like her heart leapt: it was her 15-year-old daughter, Mary Joy.
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“Asa man ka, ‘nak (Where are you, my daughter)?” she recalled saying last Dec. 26.
They talked, with Silador shivering as she spoke with her lost daughter.
When Mary Joy told her she was in Barangay Ibabao, Cordova, however, a short pause ensued. A man’s voice invaded the phone’s speaker: “Ayaw na ninyo kontaka si Joy. Di na ni ninyo siya makuha (Don’t contact Joy again. You won’t get her again),” then silence followed.
The day Mary Joy disappeared, as a friend of her recalled, she was bound to meet a “textmate.”
Yesterday, despite the distance between Cebu City and their home in Lapu-Lapu City, Silador arrived at the doors of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) 7 and sought their help.
Her neighbor Rosabella Moli, president of their barangay’s 4Ps beneficiaries, went with her. She believes Mary Joy is a victim of human trafficking.
“Di namo ma-explain unsa among gibati ‘ron (We can’t put into words how we feel now),” she said.
CIDG 7 Deputy Chief Fermin Armendarez vowed the agency would take actions to recover Mary Joy, a seventh grader of Babag Elementary School.
“It may be true, based on the mother’s accounts, that the suspect is depriving the victim, a minor, of her right to communicate with her parents,” Armendarez said. “There is a restraint in her liberty.”
If this is the case, Armendarez believes this could be a case of kidnapping or serious illegal detention.
He, however, did not discount the possibility that the victim might have eloped with her “textmate,” who could be a lover or a friend.
Silador could not believe that possibility. She said her daughter was well-behaved.
“Hilumon man kaayo na siya, sir, wa na siya kahinumdom og asa na siya (She was always quiet. She may not know how to go back home),” she said.
The cellphone Mary Joy, also known as Joyjoy, used was not even bought by her parents, according to Moli.
Silador said she also had no idea where Mary Joy got the phone.
The mother had just come home in Barangay Canjulao from a Christmas party when she realized her daughter did not go back home anymore.
“Our first step was to inquire with Joy’s friends and classmates in the school for possible information,” Armendarez disclosed.
The CIDG 7 has recently solved a kidnapping case, which happened inside the government-run Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center last Jan. 4.
It arrested the female suspect of an alleged kidnapping that happened at the Cebu South Bus Terminal last November.
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Reported by Daryl Jabil
Sunstar Network
Girl 15, missing after meeting a textmate
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