Beware of this person
Hi friends, colleagues, parents and loved ones.
It is really a dangerous world to live in nowadays. Just recently we've caught our newly hired house help stealing from our home. From just staying in our home from one month, she has already stolen jewelry and cash. What makes it even scarier is that she had male accomplices whom she sneaked in to our village. If it were not for our discernment, we might be in a graver situation ever imagined.
She was a maid referred to us by a family friend. She comes in three names which are:Patricia Sy, Emerlina Roblesor Anna Marie Miranda . We knew her as Merly. She was very efficient during her stay. She pleased every one in our household. She was talkative and really had the initiative to impress. She was even educated, claiming to have a degree from UE. She had the latest Nokia N series cellphone and had pretty good items. She was too good to be true.
We noticed during her short time that she would always take every opportunity to go out of the house. She would insist that she would need to go to the market and buy some vegetables, ask us if we want our bills to be paid for, buy some dog food or whatever have you. Since we were a trusting family, we did allow her to do these things for us. These "short trips" usually took 2-3 hours. There came a point wherein we became fishy and insisted that our driver would pick up these items on his way home. She was really persistent but she could not do anything. That very same day, she hit her head in a window and was bleeding. She acted very sick and claimed that she needed to see her doctor all the way in Taguig. She asked for her fare and we gave it to her. She left at 8pm in the evening and came back at 11pm. Things started to become fishy because no doctor would schedule that late. We allowed her to do this and a few days later, she got better. She again asked if she could run some errands outside our house and we denied her. The very same day, she said her head got hit in the window once again and insisted that she had to go to the doctor. Her head was bleeding. We allowed her to do so but in doing so, we interviewed the other house help regarding Merly.
We found out that when our family went on a trip to Palawan she brought men to our house and even went in. There were also times that we were home that Merly would pass on or trade cellphones with these men. She also over heard Merly giving out instructions to someone on the cellphone to our house. The reason that our maid did not tell us about this because Merly is seriously scary. She is around 6 feet tall and has a huge body. She could instantly hurt not only our maid but even all of us including my husband. These facts made us vigilant and I then urged my family members to search their belongings to check if they have lost anything. I then found that I was missing pieces of jewelry, household items (like important soap, shampoos) and the savings of my children that they kept in their wallets.
When we turned her in to the barangay, we searched her belongings and found a dozen of prayer books, letters that contain the words, "God is good." repeatedly and photographs of a house blessing wherein she was no where to be found. We fear that she might be mentally unstable. But what we fear more is that she might be connected to bad people who may do more damage than she already did.
She is currently free and roaming the streets because a person who has performed theft could simply be bailed. And so to warn all of you who might end up hiring her, I have attached her photo. Please forward to all your love ones to prevent this experience happening to all of you.
-Au and Butch Roño
