A Closer Look at Mariannet Amper’s Sad Fate

Posted by nina bumanglag on November 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Mariannet Amper could have been famous by being on GMA 7’s Wish Ko Lang rather than her death. Everyone thought poverty claimed her life and that the government was to be blamed for it directly. Soon, protests were taken to the streets to shame public officials who mishandle taxes and corrupt their way into more riches. The whole nation mourned as everyone reexamined the circumstances that surrounded the 12 year old’s suicide: both her parents were unemployed, she couldn’t go to school and her family could barely make ends meet. Although these reasons could be possible causes for her early death, some weren’t convinced:

“It is unfair to simply look at suicide in that angle (poverty). After all, many poor Filipinos do not resort to killing themselves despite their hopeless condition. And there have been cases of children born to well-to-do families who have committed or attempted suicide.

Suicide is not an instant decision, she said. It is borne out of a suicidal tendency that the child develops within himself.

Suicidal tendency, in turn, is a psychosocial and multi-factorial behavior that is developed through time when the child faces long-standing problems within himself and in his immediate environment.”

- Dr. Ma. Luz Casimiro-Querubin (psychiatrist)

True. Someone as young as her couldn’t just decide to end her life because of poverty; it’s not something kids would think about. So to give everyone peace of mind, her body was exhumed and reexamined only to reveal that she had been raped. Although the lacerations found in her gentalia were old wounds, the fact that she bore those scars were enough proof to consider foul play or worse, a traumatic experience that could have pushed her to commit suicide.

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