Flight Attendant Christine Dacera Laid To Rest At General Santos City

Flight attendant Christine Angelica Dacera was laid to rest by her family and friends at the Forest Lake Memorial Park in General Santos City on Sunday. Dacera's funeral was held more than a week after her controversial death on New Year’s Eve. 

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Janessa Rillota, Dacera's friend who attended the 23-year-old flight attendant's burial at the Forest Lake Memorial Park in General Santos City's said, "She is more than just a headline. She is not a story or a glitch.  She's a real person. Moreover, she is my friend and she is a sister, a daughter, and an acquaintance to someone."

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"We will not be silenced and we will not let this be ignored or forgotten after this burial," said Rillota as Dacera's family and friends continue to seek the truth and justice for the young woman.

Christine Dacera was found dead in the bathtub of a four-star hotel City Garden in Makati, Manila where she had checked in to celebrate New Year’s Eve with her friends. One of her colleagues identified as Rommel Galida claimed he found Dacera unconscious and turning blue and rushed to the hospital but doctors declared she was brought dead.

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The Makati city prosecutor office had arrested 11 suspects in the death and alleged rape case, but three of them were freed after conflicting statements of the suspects being sexually interested in men emerged. Benedicto Malcontento, Prosecutor General of Makati City said, "The pieces of evidence submitted till date are insufficient to establish whether she was sexually assaulted or raped. And if sexual assault/rape was committed, who is/are the person/s responsible?” Read about it more here. 

The flight attendant’s mother Sharon Dacera had also appealed to Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte for intervention, saying her daughter had been “treated like a pig” in the “barbaric” crime. In a television&feature=emb_title"> interview, Sharon said that she strongly believes that her daughter did not die of “ruptured aortic aneurysm,” as the 23-Year-Old was “healthy.”  “For me, my daughter was raped,” said Sharon. “As a mother, I can feel the pain Christine must have suffered but my daughter can no longer speak for herself as she is dead.”

“I know my daughter is not like that. Someone has taken advantage of her kindness and provincial ways. Christine trusted her friends so much, they should not have betrayed her” Dacera’s mother said further as she believed her friends could have saved her daughter.

The family is also preparing for a second autopsy after claiming that the first one was incomplete.

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