Nicole, Subic Rape Victim is now in the USA for Good

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Update: April 23, 2009: US Marine, Daniel Smith is acquitted by Court of Appeals

I admit. At first, I was on Nicole’s side but as the case unfolded, I had my doubts. My heart went out to Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith especially when he got convicted. I am not a mind-reader but I watched his eyes on television as if screaming of innocence. I wrote

Do you honestly think without reasonable doubt that Smith is guilty of rape? Though not a popular opinion, I have been having doubts he is really guilty. But then again , we will let the Courts of Appeal or the Supreme Court decide. The evidence will speak for itself .

Justice will be served.

(Edit at 11:00 PM- Nicole doubts she was raped. Read her affidavit)

Is this the justice served? Nicole is now in the US for good. Evelyn Ursua, Nicole’s lawyer said that in the letter, Nicole and the mother were “tired of the case and do not want anymore to be bothered by it because ‘there is no justice in the Philippines.’”

Wasn’t justice served for Nicole? I don’t get it. Though Smith is not languishing in jail, it’s not an ideal situation for the boy. He is not free to have fun, to work , to bond with his family just like my 23 year old daughter.

Mon Tulfo nails it to the point when he raised his doubts.

For treating a Filipino woman so shabbily and humiliating her, Smith and his fellow Marines should be punished. But definitely not for rape.

Just a few weeks ago, someone spammed my husband’s entry and mine with the same comment “There was NO rape”, the contents of which were very similar to Mon Tulfo’s article. It made me think that someone renewed the campaign against Nicole to put more pressure into the release of Smith. It looked to me that a massive press release was being sent to media and bloggers alike. Another commenter even placed her real name in the comments section which I deleted.

The fact that the lawyer’s services were no longer needed and that Nicole wanted “all other cases arising from or related” to the rape case dropped smacks of a sell-out to me. Why of all places is she in the USA for good? Isn’t it ironic? Isn’t that the last place she’d want to be? A reader just commented that Nicole “did the right thing instead of letting herself to be continually used by Gabriela and the leftists when in fact, she knows the truth.” “There is going suspicion that maybe Nicole was pressured and we understand her situation right now,” said Rep. Liza Maza of women’s party list Gabriela in a telephone interview on ANC’s Dateline Philippines.

I can’t help but feel disappointed with Nicole’s decision because I thought she was really fighting a cause but I guess the pressure must have been too much to bear.

Maybe Senator Ana Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal is right when she candidly says that “perhaps there was a deal [that was] too good to refuse.”

What do you think?

Edit (11:42PM)- Nicole reversed her statements regarding her rape by Daniel, saying she is now unsure whether she was raped. ‘Nicole’ backtracks, hints that Daniel Smith did not rape her

“However…I can’t help but entertain doubts on whether the sequence of events in Subic last November of 2005 really occurred the way the court found them to have happened,” she said.

She said that she was continuously being bothered by her conscience and realized that “I may have in fact been so friendly and intimate with Daniel Smith at the Neptune Club that he was led to believe that I was amenable to having sex or that we simply just got carried away.” –

(Photo credit of Nicole to Abante and the Lance Cpl Daniel Smith photo to newsflash.org)

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Related News

Copy of sworn statement of ‘Nicole submitted to Court of Appeals, March 17, 2009, ABS CBN

‘Nicole’ now doubts if Smith raped her, ABS CBN

Nicole’ recants , Inquirer

‘Nicole’ confesses, hints that Daniel Smith did not rape her, GMA News
Group Claims Nicole in the US since Last Week, GMA News TV

Nicole is now in the US for good, Inquirer

“Nicole” leaves for the US, for good, ABS CBN


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  • http://aboutmyrecovery.com Noemi

    she is using my son’s memory because she does not know how to argue her case.

  • anonymous

    Hi Ms. Noemi. I’ve always been a fan of your articles and how you consistently react to public issues. Don’t be affected by such negative comments. Just keep it up. I don’t see anything wrong with your commentaries. This person is just one of the few people with no substance at all..in short trying hard to make comments pero wala namang alam..He/She’s over reacting..Perhaps he/she’s a relative of the victim whose so affected here. We can’t blame her if that’s the case. Let’s keep in mind that everyone’s entitled to his/her opinion..For as long as we don’t step on somebody, it’s alright to leave a comment. Will support your blogs, ms noemi.. no worries on that :) Luijoe is looking down from heaven so happy and proud of you! cheers!!!

  • anonymous

    That comment is absolutely out of the context.. Please present more factual and relevant comments instead of using an innocent child whose now in peace to defend your issues. How pathetic and so shallow ;(

  • Meeh

    Puz Gala is probably a Gabriela member – BRAINWASHED.

    How pathetic!

  • http://aboutmyrecovery.com Noemi

    Thanks. She is entitled to her opinion. The thing is she couldn’t argue her case so she had to drag my son. I hope when she comes back here, she has more to say than “angel sa langit”

  • Jam

    Knew it. It doesn’t sound logical at all that the three accused was acquitted and only Smith was convicted. People like “NICOLE” should never be allowed to leave the Philippines. She’ll obviously be a SHAME to the Filipino community here in the US. We Filipinos in the US don’t want to be the object of resentment like the Hispanics(especially the immigrants) by non Filipino Americans because of the bad image being generated by people like Nicole.

    Walang delicadeza, nagpa-nationwide news pa ang gaga

  • Meeh

    Finally!

    This case should NOT even go to trial in the first place.

    The Regional Trial Court who convicted Smith in 2006, Judge Pozon, was PRESSURED by media and anti-Americans to give the guilty verdict on smith eventhough all the facts presented to court did NOT show any rape at all.

    No Blood Alcohol Content or BAC was even done on Suzette to see how much alcohol she had in her body.

    There is NO jury duty in the Philippines.

    Only the Judge decides on the case in the lower or Regional Trial Court.

    There is Jury of Justices in the Court of Appeals there and they were the ones who acquitted Smith.

    Suzette and Smith were BOTH used by the leftists in the Philippines (Gabriela, Bayan Muna, lawyer Ursua, politicians Hontiveros, Madridal, Legarda, etc.) for their POLITICAL and career aspirations.

    They did NOT really care about either of them but they saw an OPPORTUNITY and Smith was USED as an effigy of the US.

    If the US Government intervened that’s why Smith was acquitted like what Anti-Americans are saying, then why would the US subject him to Court Marshall?

    Think about it… and Court Marshall is NOT a joke.

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