Guard Seen Hitting Mentally Ill Person Fired From Job

Guard seen hitting mentally ill person in Facebook video fired from job in Negros Occidental

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By: Carla Gomez, February 9th, 2016 06:05 AM

BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental — A security guard was terminated from his post Saturday after a video showing him kicking and hitting a mentally ill woman with a bamboo stick in front of the Negros Occidental Capitol in Bacolod City posted on social media drew angry comments from netizens.

The video posted on the Facebook account “Gugma Pa More”ť Friday had drawn 210,798 views and 346 comments as ofmidnight Sunday.

The security guard, identified as Rolly Agasang of Pax Security Agency, who had been assigned at the Capitol for about 12 years, has been relieved from his post, Vinchito Magalona, security-in charge at the Capitol, said on Monday (Feb. 8).

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Complaints will be lodged against him before the Commission on Human Rights, and the Philippine National Police Firearms, Explosives, Security Agencies and Guard Section, for the revocation of his security guard license, according to Magalona.

Security guards at the Capitol have been instructed to observe maximum tolerance, and hitting and kicking a person could not be tolerated, he said.

The “Gugma Pa More” Facebookť  page said the video of theguard hitting the mentally ill woman was taken January 23.

The guard said the mentally ill person had been defecating and scattering dirt on the ramp for disabled persons at the front entrance of the Capitol, Magalona disclosed.

On January 23, the guard had just swept the garbage at the entrance of the Capitol and had gone inside to get a dustpan but when he returned he found that the mentally ill person had scattered it all again, Magalona said.

The mentally ill person who had a bamboo stick then hit the guard on the head prompting him to grab the stick from her and shoo her down the ramp, Magalona added.

However, Magalona said, that did not give the guard the right to hit her.

Angry netizens called the guard heartless and aired their sympathy for the mentally ill woman on Facebook.  SFM

 

How much longer…?

WED, FEBRUARY 10, 2016 BY THE MINDANAO DAILY MIRROR LEAVE A COMMENT

IN MY OPINION
Klaus Doring

How much longer will You forget me, Lord?

During many times of darkness when I thought again, that the whole world is against me, I opened my Bible. Suddenly I found Psalm 13, also entitled a Prayer for Help: “How much longer will You forget me, Lord?”

I was born on a Sunday in 1953 – a so-called “Sunday-Child”. There are sayings that those kind of people will have a life of great success without problems, worries and trials. This is – excuse me! – nonsense!

I also experience difficult, problematic and questionable times, where I am really loosing all my strength to get down to work on those problems. Life’s path becomes narrow. Fears grow: it’s enough, it’s enough!

I still feel, how I started becoming awkward and jerky. I struggled against everybody around me. I was reluctant against the good ideas of others. I felt driven into a corner. I started to hurt and insult people in my surroundings with arrogance and unqualified comments. Everything became and become a problem and my voice bellows and my groans grow louder.

But admittedly, groans lighten our burden. For even a short moment only, I do feel how my inner life and inside pressure ease off. But sometimes, more trials and problems overwhelm our families and ourselves: illness, death-threats, bankruptcy, war at the working-place, efforts to give us a bad name, intrigues ….

“How much longer will You forget me, Lord?” We stop groaning. We shout already to God, especially if nobody in our surroundings likes to listen to us anymore. If we are deep in fix, God must have forgotten us already, right? A terrible situation! We see faces of those people, who show us hostility.

But I also experienced how God put me into life’s “re-conversion plant” and freshened me up: Little but meaningful and important cares suddenly happened. After a hot and stressful day and a refreshing thunderstorm, let’s enjoy the following night. The person, who insulted us, suddenly apologized. The illness wiped out.

“You prepare a banquet for me, where all my enemies can see me!” (Psalm 23:5). I am glad, because I really don’t know about more and new spitefulness through my next “enemy on duty” in future. I actually really don’t want to know it. I learned that negativism blocks life and its plans.

But I know Psalm 23. I read it every time while having a problem. Psalm 23 should be printed in everyone’s heart, mind and soul!

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