Timeline of alleged Subic rape
It happened in the Phillipines. The victim was a woman. The perpetrators of the crime were American men in the US Armed Forces stationed in the Philippines. They drugged her and gang-raped her. They got of scot-free. This is not the only case. The people of Philippines need to throw the US Army out of their country. And if the President of the Philippines wants to stay in bed with the US, then they need to throw out their President, because it means the President cares nothing for her own people. She cares only for money, power, more money and more power. We cannot allow such persons to rule countries. We cannot tolerate this beastly behavior - of the US servicemen and of the indifferent President. Both must go.
First posted 06:12am (Mla time) Nov 07, 2005
By Tonette Orejas, Ansbert Joaquin
Inquirer News Service
Philippine Daily Inquirer
[Editor's Note: Timeline as narrated by Zambales Representative Milagros Magsaysay based on interviews with the victim, her stepsister, the driver of the Starex van and eight witnesses]
NOV. 1 - 9 p.m.
The victim, her stepsister and the latter's boyfriend, Christopher James Mills, go to Neptune bar. Victim dances with US soldier surnamed Reynolds. This man is later mistakenly questioned as a suspect. (The driver fails to recognize him as one of the men who rode in the Starex van. Later, the US Marines' logbook shows Reynolds returning to the USS Essex at 9:30 p.m. Investigators find no reason to detain him).
About 10 p.m. Grand Leisure Hotel
Stepsister invites victim to return to Grand Leisure Hotel where they are staying. Hotel is less than a km north of Neptune. The victim prefers to stay longer at the bar and her stepsister leaves her there. Later, Mills volunteers to look for the victim but fails to find her.
10 p.m. Aresi Restaurant
Driver and a US Marine surnamed Carpenter dine at Aresi Restaurant, less than 1 km north of Neptune. Four servicemen call to tell Carpenter and driver to go to Neptune. (Driver says he has been driving for three servicemen for a week. He identifies the two others as Smith and Boris).
10:30 p.m. Neptune with Dewey Avenue street post
The group gathers at Neptune. Soldiers order driver to go inside the bar. He is given a bottle of beer. About 15 to 20 minutes later, driver is told to prepare the van as they are leaving. The five men and the victim ride the van. Driver says he is not sure if victim is lucid at this point. Driver is instructed to go around Dewey Avenue.
As van travels this route, Carpenter shouts: "Go, go, Smith." The three men take turns shouting "F**k! F**k!" The three men stand on their knees, their backs to the driver. Driver says the group did not take turns raping the victim. Driver tries to switch on the light inside the van. Carpenter stops him. Carpenter instead turns up the radio louder. The incident takes 10 to 20 minutes.
The Starex van stops somewhere along Alava Pier and there unloads the girl. Driver says victim's pants lowered to her knees.
11:15 p.m. Subic Telecom-Subic Chamber of Commerce offices
Eight people are at the Alava Pier, between the Subic Telecom and Subic Chamber of Commerce offices, to watch US soldiers return to the ship (this is a practice by locals during the years when the US Navy was still at Subic until 1992). They say a Starex van pulled over and a black man alighted and sat on the pavement. Two Caucasians emerge later carrying the victim, by her hands and feet, as if she were a pig ("parang baboy"). The victim has her shirt and underwear on. Another Caucasian emerges from the van, throws away the remaining beer in a bottle. He rolls the bottle in the direction of the victim. He gets in the van and throws a pair of pants the victim's way.
The eight witnesses get near the victim. They say she looks "groggy." A condom is hanging from her underwear while a trip ticket falls on the pavement. The ticket belongs to Star Ways Tours and Travel owned by one George Day at Clark. Witnesses call an SBMA mobile patrol to report a "possible rape." They fetch victim's stepsister at the hotel.
NOV. 2 - 2 a.m.
Victim is taken to James Gordon Hospital in Olongapo City, just outside the freeport, for a medico-legal test. The last thing she remembers is she felt dizzy at Neptune.
"Liberty" or recreation time for US troops ends.
6 a.m.
The search for suspects ends after they are presented in a lineup before the van driver.
9 a.m. Alava Pier
USS Essex leaves Alava Pier.
11 a.m. LED office
US Naval Intelligence Service (NIS) begins investigation, gets statements from victim, driver and eight witnesses at the SBMA's law enforcement department (LED).
Victim tells investigators that the last thing she remembers is she felt dizzy at Neptune bar.
NOV. 3
US NIS presents five suspects to SBMA Chair Feliciano Salonga and Administrator Armand Arreza.
2:30 p.m.
A complaint for rape is filed against the suspects before the Olongapo City prosecutor's office.
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Source: Inquirer News Service. inq7.net.
