Seventeen years ago. On a cold, dark evening. A sixteen year old girl begs for her life. Deaf to her pleas, for some unfathomable reason, she is shot, in cold blood.
Seventeen years later, in the dead of the night, while the whole world sleeps, the man who shot the 16 year old in cold blood, is set free.
I wonder what thoughts must be going through Hultman’s hearts right now? What would I do, if I were in their shoes? I suppose, forgiveness comes, eventually, at some point in the road. But isn’t it also true that one must pay for the consequences of one’s sin?
What is the basis for clemency? For pardon? Can someone please explain this to me? If you were the Hultman’s how would you feel? Is 17 years behind bars enough penalty? Maybe it is. Did Mr.Teehankee find God in jail?
I would be very interested in a story, in an interview with him. How was your life changed by the experience? What did you discover while you were in jail?
Are you planning to seek the Hultman’s forgiveness?
If the Jewish concentration camp prisoner was able to forgive the Nazi who massacred his entire family…If the Amish whose daughters were mercilessly shot by the man who took them hostage were able to forgive…
No one is beyond redemption. There is earthly justice and Divine justice. I suppose the story does not end here. It would be interesting to listen to the opinion and the sentiments of both sides and see how the story will unravel from hereon.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:40 am
according to the news, the Hultmans and Malacanang agreed on Teehankee’s pardon. the Hultmans are already in Sweden, and in exchange for the pardon, they want to acquire some of Teehankee’s properties. but then again, what about the other victims? hmm.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:11 am
the arroyo administration will go down as the worst philippine government in history. A life sentence plus two 20 years for three murders got out in only seventeen years…No justice was served.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:35 am
MUKHANG PERA ANG GOBYERNO NATIN…. THEY WANT MONEY MONEY MONEY….
PAG MAYAMAN ANG NAGKASALA…. PERA LANG KATAPAT… SUPALPALAN NG PERA
ANG MGA GOBYERNO TIKOM ANG BIBIG MGA BIKTIMA PA ANG MAY SALA…
ANO KAYA??? PERA KAYA KINAKAIN NILA INSTEAD OF BIGAS….
October 9th, 2008 at 8:45 am
our nation is in such a sad, sad state
October 14th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
something fishy sa paglaya ng killer - anu kayang pabor ang gagawin ng teehanke sa pangulo ? VERY CLEAR ang motibo - BAKIT BA TILA BINA BABOY NA NG PANGULO ANG BATAS ? PILIPINAS AT PILIPINO ? bakit po ? dahil ND na tayo tumatayo, wla nang LUMALABAN wla na ang spirito ng PAGKAKA ISA take note PAG KA KA ISA…kung sama sama po tau pupunta sa edsa wla pong magagawa ang ISANG TAO - pagnakita nyang LAHAT ay laban sa kanya..BAKIT PO puro sulat tau WLANG GAWA..kung wlang tatayo LAHAT PO TAU MASASADLAK sa IMPYERNONG palakad - papa baboy nalang ba tayo ? ORAS NA PARA KALUSIN ANG TALOP !