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The Culprit: A Confession of Guilt

The defendant Rolando Madlang Bayan pleads guilty to multiple murders and drug trafficking charges. He asks the judge to listen to his story before passing sentence. He describes growing up rejected by his mother and abandoned by his father. With no support system, he turned to drug trafficking to survive. When police raided his operation, the lead officer was revealed to be his father who had disowned him years ago. Rather than seek revenge, he surrendered to his father. He asks the judge to consider who the real culprit is - himself for his crimes born of hardship, or his father who rejected him and drove him to this life.

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The Culprit: A Confession of Guilt

The defendant Rolando Madlang Bayan pleads guilty to multiple murders and drug trafficking charges. He asks the judge to listen to his story before passing sentence. He describes growing up rejected by his mother and abandoned by his father. With no support system, he turned to drug trafficking to survive. When police raided his operation, the lead officer was revealed to be his father who had disowned him years ago. Rather than seek revenge, he surrendered to his father. He asks the judge to consider who the real culprit is - himself for his crimes born of hardship, or his father who rejected him and drove him to this life.

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THE CULPRIT

The Republic of the Philippines


Versus Rolando Madlang Bayan
Criminal Case No. 27890

Yes your honor I am Rolando Madlang Bayan docked in Criminal Case No. 27890 for
multiple murders and drug trafficking. Yes, I pledge guilty to the crime I do not intend to deny.
Come, sentence me the ultimate capital punishment I deserve but I beg of you to listen to me.

This is how it happened. Many years ago in an obscure village, a healthy boy was born
to a woman who had a name in a flickerville. My father was a man who had a name to himself. I
was the fruit of their secret relationship. After my birth my mom got back to the world of make
believe just to accept many more rejections. Offers started to come just a little and all her
misfortunes were charged to my unexpected coming. She called me a jinx, her misfortune, her
failure. Until one time, she died of overdose of sleeping pills. Her untimely death was added to
my sufferings. My own father disowned me for reason he alone knows. Society condemned me.
The pang of rejection was even bitter. I started on my own. Living the hard way, until I found
myself hooked in the business of drug trafficking.

You brand me as evil, but have you ever tried to give me the chance to live decently?
You call me wicked but has it ever crossed your mind that you too had a share in shaping me
into a hoodlum?

During the pitiful night, there was raid. We were surrounded by men in uniform. From my
place I know the man who led the raiding team was the man responsible for my birth ... My own
father ... I could have killed him that very night. I could have vindicated the injustice he had done
but blood was thicker than water ... I made a painful decision. I surrendered and handed him my
revolver, I know I would answer for the many crimes of murder I had done but I am sure with my
decision my father will earn another feather in his cap. It would mean a promotion for him.

Your honor, now on your hands lie the verdict. Who is the real culprit? The man who sold
prohibited drugs to sustain a living or the man who turned his back from responsibility? The man
charged of multiple murders or the decorated man who led me to this horrible crime?

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