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| Photo from Facebook |
A picture of a senior citizen named
Napoleon Timonera of Las Pinas becomes a viral on the internet after a Facebook
user named Maverick Victor Vallos, an MMDA traffic enforcer posted a picture of him while he was holding a
placard that having a picture of his daughters who are living in America
working as doctors and nurses. According to their claim, the old man was already
abandoned by his daughters although they have a good job in abroad. Because of
this, he got the sympathy of the netizens. They became furious and made a judgment
the daughters by saying that after their father sent them in school, this is
what he got from them.
But on the other side, one of the
daughters already answered about the issue. She released a letter on her
Facebook account. In her letter, she said that it is not true that they
abandoned their father. It is also not true that he sent their father in school.
They helped their father although it has a new family. Beside this, their
father is a womanizer. This was the reason that’s why they their family had
been broken. Their father was always asking them to send money for him. Once,
they became a victim of his lies. He said that he will use the money to funding
the business plan. But they discovered that was just a part of his dirty
tricks. Despite of those things they still supported their father until it
became worst and worst. Their father also blackmailed them that if they will
not give him money, he will destroy their reputation. Then, all of a sudden
they become a center of controversy.
We knew that the Filipino people
are family oriented that’s why the pictures of the old man made them furious.
Because they thought that the daughters really abandoned their father. After
one of his daughter explained, it up to us to analyze who is telling the truth,
the father or his daughters. If the explanation of his daughter is true, it
means that he is an abusive father. We should always remember that not all
issues on that internet that we read are true. There are also many false
stories that spread online. It is easy to give our sympathy to someone that we
think that became a victim of some circumstances. In this case, it is sad to
think that they need to release their family problem to the public instead to
talk it privately. Is this just a counterpart of Barretto sisters who attacks
each other on television? Maybe the Victor Vallo only wants to help the father
because he believed that he is a true victim. But what if, his daughters are the
real victims?