Off The Beaten Path

A tale of two villages

SORSOGON CITY, Philippines – What sex is all about.

While a man tried to hang himself due to failure to consummate their marriage with his wife in a village here, another man was complained to authorities by his wife as a victim of being ‘oversexed’ by his husband in another village in Sorsogon town.

In Casiguran town, about 10 kilometers from this city, a newly-wed couple have not successfully consummated their marriage since their wedding a month ago because of the husband’s mother-in-law preventing her daughter to live in one roof with her husband.

In a fit of despair, the man identified to by authorities as Rolly Esmiria, 28 and a resident of Barangay Eskwela, Casiguran town decided to commit suicide by tying a rope at his neck that resulted to a severe wound nearly ending his life.

He was found by his wife and some relatives and was immediately brought to Sorsogon Doctors Hospital for treatment.

Doctors declared him safe but advised to stay for a few more days as the doctors will still observe the severe wound.

It was also reported that wife’s mother is preventing her daughter to visit her daughter’s husband at the hospital.

A few days before the suicide attempt Mayor Esther Hamor was reported to have acted as mediator with Esmiria and his mother-in-law as soon as the story reached the mayor’s office and having known their respective families for years, but failed to convince Esmiria’s mother-in-law.

Meanwhile in St. Magdalena town, a newly-wed wife complained to the police of being oversexed by his husband whom he said tried to have sex with her ten- times-a-day.

Accompanied by her parents, the 21 year-old victim (name withheld) and who is just married with her husband for three months, complained to the local police in Sta. Magdalena town yesterday reporting the sex gusto of her husband whom she cannot bear anymore.

The police, however, are still on its course of investigation and thinking what appropriate case to be filed against the 20 year-old husband who is identified only as “Gardo”.

In a police entry numbered 0969-09, the victim narrated her experience with her husband who he said tried to have sex with her from the wee hours of the morning, before and after lunch and dinner just few minutes from nighttime and thereafter.

She also said that her husband even at snack time tried to have sex with her.

It was the ordeal that she can’t bear anymore why she decided to report it to the local police, a source at the police station said.

Trauma made the victim to report it to the police station, said the same source. 

NPA admits raid on Sorsogon mayor’s home

Filed Under: Armed conflict, Local authorities

SORSOGON CITY, Philippines — The Celso Minguez Command of the New People’s Army (NPA) in this province on Monday owned up to the Feb. 3 raid on the home of Mayor Helen de Castro of Bulan town.

In an e-mailed statement, NPA spokesman Samuel Guerrero said the raidwas meant to warn elected officials suspected of maintaining weapons caches and private armies, especially with next year’s elections drawing near.

Police said the rebels only seized a shotgun and an “air-soft gun” from the security guards at De Castro’s house.

Between 10 to 20 guerrillas stormed the house of de Castro, holding her son, Bulan Councilor Guillermo de Castro Jr., at gunpoint.

The mayor and her husband, Guillermo Sr., a former town mayor, were not in the house when the raid happened.

Elements of the 509th Police Provincial Mobile Group and the Bulan police engaged the raiders in a 15-minute gunfight before the rebels fled.