RESTRAINING ORDER VS EX-BF
[PHOTO - LOVE GONE VERY WRONG. Mo
Twister and Rhian Ramos in Greece early this year.]
MANILA,
DECEMBER 9, 2011 (INQUIRER) By: Bayani San Diego Jr. - GMA 7 actress Rhian
Ramos has filed a temporary protection order suit against her ex-boyfriend,
former TV5 host Mohan "Mo Twister" Gumatay, on Monday in Muntinlupa City.
Lorna Kapunan, Ramos' counsel, told the Inquirer that Ramos is asking the
court to stop Gumatay from further using the media and social networking sites
to defame her.
Ramos also wants Gumatay "to stop calling, texting and e-mailing" her.
Emotional violence
"He's still trying to get in touch with her," Kapunan said. "Hopefully it
will later become a permanent protection order."
Kapunan said Gumatay violated Republic Act No. 9262 (Violence Against Women
and Children Act) by inflicting "psychological and emotional violence" on Ramos.
In a video posted online last week, Gumatay claimed that Ramos had aborted
their love child due to pressures from show business' elders and her family.
Gumatay has repeatedly denied uploading the video.
Ramos said Gumatay's actions have traumatized her and her family. "More than
what people have seen, I've been hurting over a longer period of time," Ramos
told the media. The pain was "unnecessary and undeserved," she stressed.
'Final' statement
The actress added that, by filing the case, she hoped to "put an end to the
issue now, so that I can move on." Kapunan said Ramos would like Gumatay to be
able to do the same.
In his "final statement" released on Sunday, Gumatay apologized to Ramos:
"I'm sorry … that our roller-coaster relationship ended the way it did … But I
love you. I always have."
Kapunan remarked that Gumatay surely had a strange way of showing affection.
"He's very inconsistent. He professes love, but has made Rhian free game
online."
In the statement, Gumatay apologized to GMA Network, which earlier threatened
to file a libel case against him. "The decision to have an abortion was not
something the network instructed us to do," he said.
Symptomatic
But he went on to criticize Ramos' mother Clara Ramos and aunt Ida
Ramos-Henares, head of GMA Artist Center, and blamed them for the abortion.
Kapunan put Gumatay to task for not sparing Ramos' mother, who is a
recovering cancer patient.
"Rhian said that this is between the two of them. Mo shouldn't involve other
people in their quarrel," Kapunan said.
The whole issue, the lawyer pointed out, was "symptomatic of a bigger
problem."
Kapunan said it was important to file the case against Gumatay if only
because no one is above the law. She elaborated: "If he is not afraid of media,
he should be scared of the legal repercussions. Some personalities create
scandals because they want to become media sensations."
Gabriela hands off
But they shouldn't violate the rights of other people in their quest for
infamy, she said. "The problem with social networking sites [is that] people can
easily deny any wrongdoing. But anything posted online can assume a life of its
own."
Kapunan hopes the scandal would die a natural death soon and that "next week,
people will have another breakup to feast on."
Meanwhile, Gabriela, a party-list group for women, is distancing itself from
the issue because it found the "charges baseless and its source doubtful."
Gabriela party-list Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan, however, said the group would
support Ramos "if she asks for help." With a report from Gil Cabacungan
Chief News Editor: Sol
Jose Vanzi
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