As Derek Ramsay's
estranged wife Mary Christine Jolly belied all his claims when she filed her
reply affidavit on Thursday afternoon at the Makati Prosecutor's Office, their
son Austin Gabriel expressed what he thought of his father in a telling letter.
A photo of the letter
supposedly written by their 11-year-old son was published by Pep which
contained his disappointment about how his father treated him and about the
situation that he and his mother are currently in. "I am very sad with
what is happening to me and my mom. I don’t want to experience all this I am
just a kid. I don’t deserve this I have been reading a lot of terrible things
on the internet and I just want Derek to stop making my life so
difficult," he began.
Austin claims in the
letter that he doesn't call the star “dad” because “he doesn’t deserve it” and
that he truly hates him for not being a “good father” and for abandoning him
and his mom.
He adds, "No matter
how many present[s] he buys me won’t change what he has done to me and my
wonderful mom."
The boy, through the
letter expressed, knowledge of his father’s conduct, affairs, and even his
interests. But more than what he knows, it was Austin’s unanswered questions
which are wrought with obvious disappointment that are most notable.
“Derek has so many
girlfriends and I read that he even bought one of them a car. Derek is so
obsessed with money and cars more than his family. Don’t you know that family
is more important? Why didn’t he get me and my mom a car? Am I not important
too?” he asked.
He also lamented that
the entire scandal is taking his focus away from school. He said, “I cry when I
see my mom cry. Derek is a liar. He always lies. He lied saying I was not his
kid. Why would a father do that? What did I do wrong?”
Even if he expressly
said that he wants his father to leave them alone “so we can get one with our
lives” the child wasn’t able to mask his dismay over his father’s absence in
his life.
“I cry all the time. He
never came to any of my school activities while other dads were there,” he
noted.
While
he spewed nothing but words of hatred about his father, Austin showed utter
love and support for his mother. He said, “I hate seeing my mom suffer. She
works do hard to take care of me. I can see how much she loves me. My mom is
the best person in the universe. She tries to give me the best life. I will
never leave her.”
Austin continued, “My
mom made a mistake marrying such an evil person and I wish he would go to jail
so he would finally know what it feels like to be treated with no respect. The
truth will prevail not his lies.”
An interesting addition
to the letter was Austin’s supposed drawing of him and his mom in a “love land”
while he juxtaposed it with a drawing of a man behind bars which he labeled to
be Derek.
Last month, Mary
Christine arrived in Manila and filed a violation of Republic Act No. 9262 case, otherwise known as the
Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004, against
the actor which
prompted him to admit about their marriage in 2002.
Because of his negligence, Mary
Christine asked for a lump sum of P48 million, which she justified to be fair
based on the actor’s financial capacities after drawing flak from critics for
the exorbitant amount. (Read here)
However, it seems that after talks
yesterday, the couple has come to an amicable settlement regarding child
custody.
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