Justice for ‘sweet and loving child’ Cyrish

When I first heard the news about the brutal killing of Cyrish Magalang, I couldn’t believe the fact that such heinous crime could actually happen to someone I personally knew. Cyrish’s only brother and I went to the same school during our elementary and high school years, and like most close school buddies, we had a lot of misadventures as we “explored” to see the other side of life.

I can even remember Cyrish, who was seven years younger than us, as the quiet and cute little girl who’d drop by our classroom to bring her Kuya Jomil’s packed lunch. But life is really unpredictable, if not imperceptible.

Who could imagine a 20-year-old magna cum laude graduate from the University of Santo Tomas, a sweet and loving child, would suffer from 49 stab wounds with her head bashed in? No one except, perhaps, the cold-blooded murderers themselves who tried to rape her and took her life.

“Let justice be done though the heavens fall,” according to an old maxim. And if the sky should fall, then so be it, let justice be served!

Justice for Cyrish Magalang!

—DANIEL JALBUENA ALOC,

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