Worthless Creation
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Crime After Chat

Last July 9, I found this post in the bulletin by Charles. The subject was "Please HELP! Please REPOST!!" and the content read:

Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:27:00 PM
Subject: PLEASE REPOST!!!
Message: SHARON TORTUGO
26 years old
5ft 4ins
you can see her picture at her profile with this
address: iakgnahs@yahoo.com

Last seen 24th June 2005, in Manila.

IF you know the whereabouts of SHARON
TORTUGO OR have A N Y information
as to where she might be P L E A S E reply to this
post or call/text (+639178360777)/
(+639218041234) / (639212046303) or report it to
the CIDG/ or the
nearest police station


That name was so familiar. Sharon Tortugo was an Iliganon, and she was one of the candidates of the 2000 Iligan City Fiesta Kasadya Festival and Beauty Pageant and she was the 4th runner-up of the said event.

I was so shocked to hear her name in the office. Mushna asked me if I have known her. I said we don't know each other but basically she had been that known in Iligan City. I was shocked to hear that she was killed. Her body was not identified easily and it took days to recognize her. As Mushna says, she was reported to be missing after having an EB with her chatmate for some sort of interview. I feel bad since this was the first ever incident that there was 'Crime after Chat'.

I looked over the net for a news report on the incident, and I happen to stumble on Donita Montebon's blogpage. It was cited in one of her articles that Philstar had released the article about her mysterious death. I feel sorry for Donita, and I feel sorry for the family of Sharon.

For Sharon, may you rest in peace. People are there for you, to let justice prevail.

And as for others, let it be a lesson that to chat is not a crime unless there's crime after the chat.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

hello there, i was just browsing on the net cause i was looking for pictures of Kasadya Feastival, then i accidentally clicked on your site. I've read your post about "Sharon Tortugo" i was shocked!! cause she was my classmate in high school in St. Michael's college. I was trying to contact some of my friends and classmates back in Iligan but i couldn't get hold of them. Nagbulag bulag naman gud after high school. I was really really shocked!! i just cant believe it!

Charmaine
San Diego, California

6:02 AM  
Anonymous nikki paloma said...

OMG! It's been 5years since her death...and It was only last night that i found out about it. I knew Sharon. She was my co-cheerleader at Silliman (Mass Communication). She was our ate on the group. And I remember her singing "I wouldn't be Here If I didn't Love You". That song was her favorite. I'm just soo shocked. I feel so sorry for her and her family coz according to friends, the case is still pending until now. :-( RIP ate Sha!

3:29 PM  
Blogger Cris said...

Sharon's brother is my son's best friend. I just found out about this when I met her mom last night. I was shocked! I can't imagine the feeling and I don't want to even try to imagine it. God bless her soul and her family. Saimon is such a good boy and I love him like my own son. May whoever did that to her burn in hell.

10:43 AM  
Blogger FDJ Creative Solutions said...

When i used to be a Disc Jock in Iligan, I had a chance to interview this pretty Sharon for their radio visit as part of their promotion of the event. Sharon was such a wonderful person. My wife now is her Siliman classmate and while discussing things about Iligan, she asked me if I have heard a news about a masscomm student who was killed in Manila. I asked her the name, and i was so shocked to know that she was Sharon. She used to be my wife's one of the closest friends in Siliman. It happened 2005 pa diay? Its been how many years before I knew this. May you rest in peace Sha. Whoever did that to you may suffer. Bye Sharon and we are proud of you as you are one of those who made Iligan City proud. RIP Sha.

5:09 PM  

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