Other side of the Causing case-3

By Modesto P. Sa-onoy

From the correspondence of Atty. Juliana Carbon with Olivia Yanson, one can glean Carbon needed something to justify the disconnection, a crutch, anything to assuage her conscience yet enforcing Olivia’s will, though the uncompleted sentence in her letter report to Olivia remains a mystery.

That is the reason Carbon wanted Atty. Raul Bito-on who informed her that the apartment occupied by the Causings is under a lease contract with Emily Yanson. Carbon wanted Atty. Bito-on to produce a document testifying that Emily has the authority of Olivia. We shall deal with this later.

Of course, it is incumbent on her to be clear that she was following a legal order from the owner and performing her duties accordingly. We cannot blame her for that.

On the other hand, she knew a canister of water is clearly not access to water as logically understood and upon which BACIWA was established and had justified a continuous flow of money to expand its services.

Lopez claims she did not commit any child abuse because she did not see a child when she went there on July 2. She came late and probably explains why Carbon saw the child and her mother but Lopez did not.

When Lopez arrived, she “just stood there beside my car and observed what the BACIWA personnel were doing.” She also saw Carbon “supervising the work of the BACIWA personnel and I approached and talked to her.” Lopez also said that Atty. Pugoy arrived, stood beside her and “all of us observed the work taken by the personnel of BACIWA.” Then she said, Causing “announced that they have no water.” That’s also the exact words of Pugoy.

Lopez and Pugoy claimed that they observed the BACIWA personnel doing their work and when Lopez joined Carbon, the latter “was supervising the work” of her personnel.

What was the work of the water agency personnel that Carbon was supervising? Surely not installing a connection and if they were not cutting the water supply, what was there to supervise? The three of them were observing the work – again if the personnel was not installing, then they were already cutting the connection.

So while the two claimed they were “observing” and Carbon was supervising, to use the similar words and format of Lopez and Pugoy in their affidavits, “C.J. NICHOLAS CAUSING announced that they have no water.” Lopez and Pugoy even made the same misspelling of the name “Nicolas”.

As already cited, it was then that Lopez said they looked for containers and had these filled up with water.

To cite again her counter-affidavit Carbon made it appear that the disconnection was effected only after she was assured that the Causings had access to water. The two other respondents also insinuated similarly.

But Carbon made a lie of their allegations that the disconnection was made only after the Causings had water in containers.

Lopez and Pugoy said they were only observing the BACIWA personnel doing their work, when in truth these employees were cutting off of the water supply. When they were done it was then that Causing “announced” they had no more water. So Lopez and Pugoy gave the consuelo de bobo, by looking for containers and had them filled up elsewhere.

Who slipped from the script? To repeat, Carbon said she disconnected only after Lopez and Pugoy provided Nico’s family with access to water “coming from some units also owned by Olivia V. Yanson.” If Causing’s water connection had not yet been severed as Carbon wants us to believe, why fill up the containers elsewhere and carry them to Nico’s apartment?

Lopez and Pugoy did not mention this important fact. Doesn’t half a truth make a lie?

Lost or conveniently disremembered in the narration of the trio was the moment the water was cut off. If we believe them then the water was still flowing in the Causing apartment when Nico said they had no more water and prompting Lopez and Pugoy to look for containers.

Is not the action of BACIWA on orders of Olivia Yanson and witnessed by Lopez and Pugoy to ensure compliance to deprive the Causings of their vital water supply not an act of cruelty, physical and psychological abuse? Will a container of water suffice?

Continued November 26.