Scorned Amazon, escapes her rapist comrade submits to authorities

By CMO Battalion, 8ID PA
January 21, 2011

CAMP LUKBAN, Catbalogan, Samar  –  After almost four (4) years of living miserably under the inhumanity and brutality of the terrorist New People’s Army (NPA), a disgraced Amazon who was almost rape by her comrades eagerly decided to exile herself from the group that she sacrificed and toiled her life by voluntarily submitting herself to the Army’s 34th Infantry Battalion in San Jose de Buan of Samar province, 3:00 p.m. of January 15, Saturday.

Reports reaching this headquarters from Lieutenant Colonel William Peňafiel, commanding officer of 34IB disclosed that a certain Jocelyn Gabin known as “Jane” in the underground for four (4) years, 20 years old, single and a local of Brgy. Cataydungan of same municipality is one among the numerous rebels who suffered in the hands of their own comrades.

Further, initial custodial debriefing revealed that Jane is a member of Medical team of YAMBI platoon, under Central Front Samar-1 (CFS-1), Samar Provincial Party Committee (SPPC) of Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee (EVPC).  According to her, hunger, sleepless nights, anxious minds and hardships she experienced from the hands of her comrades are just few among the factors that made her decide to covertly leave the underground.  She said that she was not treated well as what was promised to her when she was recruited.

Jane also narrated how she suffered when she was hit by an ulcer and fever that no one paid concern on her condition.  She was even forced to work and walk even she could no longer stand the pain and the sting of her body.

She even gnashed her teeth when she recounts the moment when she was attempted to be raped by her comrades.  Accordingly, her life was already destroyed by the movement and she could not longer standstill if she will be totally destroyed by his comrades.  These further forced her to flee and returned to the safer place away form the evil spell of the people she once trusted her life.

Jane was brought to the headquarters of 34IB complete custodial debriefing then was handed over to her mother Cecilia Gabin with the presence of Brgy. Chairman Edusma of Poblacion, Kagawad Ronn Dacles of Brgy Cataydungan and the local folks who served as witnesses.

Meanwhile, Major General Mario Chan, 8ID’s commander expressed his admiration to the bravery of Jocelyn for facing the real terror of turning her back away from the underground movement despite her safety is at stake.  Major General Chan also said that Jocelyn made a right decision to fully re-experience her freedom in the open without guilt and reservation to the people who really desire peace and prosperity.

Major General Chan once again reiterated his fervent call to the members of the underground movement to lay down their arms and feel the warm embrace of our government’s arm whose concern for his people is genuine.

“As I have told in the past, I am happier to see these people peacefully reaching their arms to the government for the sake of freedom and democracy than through a bloody resort of struggles.  After all, we are all Filipinos and our true enemy is the deprivation of our rights, freedom and democracy”.