19 May 2014
On the death of Andrea Rosal’s newborn baby
From the time of her arrest on March 27, 2014, the treatment of then pregnant Andrea Rosal was dehumanizing and heightened by obvious bad faith if not disregard for basic human rights. She was subjected to undue stress, tension, anxiety and discomfort in infernal, humid and crowded jail conditions.
Immediately after birth last May 17, 2014, her baby daughter was placed in the incubator of the Philippine General Hospital’s Natal Intensive Care Unit. She was not given the once-in-a-lifetime, irreplaceable chance to see her baby daughter Diona Andrea while she was still alive. She was deprived the opportunity to hear her baby cry and to cuddle her, and to give her the comfort and care which only a mother could give. The maternal instincts of a first-time mother like Andrea is no less any other mother’s.
Even as Andrea remains distressed, devastated and even inconsolable with such avoidable tragedy, the wake of her baby daughter has been arranged through her family and friends at the Church of the Risen Lord at the University of the Philippines, Diliman Campus the whole day of May 20, 2014 while the burial is scheduled on May 21, 2014 at Andrea’s hometown of Ibaan, Batangas.
We implore fairness and beseech the basic sense of humanity that Andrea be allowed to attend the wake of her baby Diona Andrea as well as to attend her burial to give her the opportunity to properly mourn the death of her baby.
This will give both mother and child due respect, civility, and decency; as what the child Diona Andrea was not given in life, may she be shown in death.
No mother deserves this kind of indescribable heartbreak many times over.
We plead to make haste in assuaging the pain visited by the cruelty and barbarity of the callous. #
Reference
Edre U. Olalia
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