Cristy Fermin, humihingi ng public apology mula sa abogado ni Dawn Chang.

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p> Isang malaking balita ang naging pagkundena ng Kapamilya Star at Ex PBB Housemate na si Dawn Chang sa political opinion ni Toni Gonzaga kaugnay kay Bongbong Marcos.

Kinabukasan ay naglabas ng pahayag si Cristy Fermin sa kanyang programa at ipinagtanggol si Toni Gonzaga.

Ang eksaktong sinabi ng radio host, 

“Alam mo raw kung sino na pa-righteous at sikat nitong Dawn Chang? Di ba, yun yung dancer? Iyan ‘yung dancer.

“Dancer iyan na nasa ano dati, sa lunchtime show nila. Itong si Dawn Chang, kaya nagkakaroon ng mga trabaho iyan, alam na alam sa ABS…

“Ako, Dawn Chang, gusto mong ibulgar ko kung ba’t ka nagkakaroon ng trabaho?

“E, pa-bash bash ka pa, ikaw ang dapat i-bash, dahil wala kang mararating kung di ka nakikipaglandian sa mga boss, naku, ha.

“Dawn Chang, tumigil ka nga. Dawn Chang me. Charot!”

Matapos ang malisyosong pahayag na ito ay nag demand ng Public Apology ang abogado ni Dawn Chang. 

Binigyan pa ng deadline at kapag nabigo ito ay itutuloy nila ang demanda laban dito.

Samantala, ngayong araw naglabas naman ngayong ng pahayag ang kampo ng beteranang kolumnista si Atty. Ferdinand Topacio ang nagsalita bilang kanyang abogado. 

Humingo sila ng paumanhin sa nagawa ng kanilang kliyente na parte daw nito ng kanyang trabaho na makapagsalita ng ibang kontexto. 

Ngunit humihingi naman sila ngayon ng public apology mula sa abogado ni Dawn Chang na naglabas ng statement umano ng pananakot kay Cristy Fermin. 

Dahil dito lumabag daw ang lawyer ni Chang sa code of ethics ng mga abogado. 

Tila nabaligtad pa tuloy ang sitwasyon imbes na si Cristy ang hihingi ng paumanhin mukhang may nalabag daw na code of ethics ang mga ito.

Narito ang kabuuang pahayag ni Atty. Ferdinand Topacio"

ATTY. RAFAEL VICENTE R. CALINISANG

HR Building, No, 173 Remedios Street

Malate, Manila

Dear Atty. Calinisan:

Our client, Ms. CRISTINELLI SALAZAR FERMIN, a.k.a. Cristy Fermin, has referred to us your undated “statement” released to media, which we take as an open letter of demand, for her to make a public apology in relation to utterances made regarding your client, a certain Dawn Chang, who appears to be a dancer and show business personality.

Ms. Fermin will respond to your demand in due time, and also publicly. We write this letter, however, to make a demand of our own, regarding some statements made by you as lawyer of Ms. Chang.

In your signed public statement – shorn of irrelevant discourses — you called our client a “coward” and a liar, saying that her statements are “nakakahiya”, using the word “gutter” to describe Ms. Fermin, describing her expressions as “malaking kabastusan.” Worse, you strongly implied that you have control of the Philippine justice system when you bragged that “we assure you, we will send you to jail.”

I need not quote to you the specific provisions of the Code of Professional Responsibility that you have violated by using undignified and intemperate language unbecoming of a member of the legal profession in your exercise thereof, and in undermining the confidence of the public in the impartiality of our justice system. While a lawyer owes his client zeal in the protection of his or her rights, such zealousness must not outrun the bounds of decency and tread on the territory of the impertinent and contumelious. Regardless of your personal offense at what you may feel are libelous words against your clients, you, as a lawyer, still has the bounden duty to comport yourself in a manner consistent with legal ethics and the proper conduct of a lawyer.

It is ironic that while you complain against libel allegedly having been committed against your client, you have committed the same crime against ours.

Therefore, let us be the one to give you, Atty. Rafael Vicente R. Calinisan, a deadline of until midnight of 16 February 2022, within which to PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE to our client who, it cannot be denied, is already considered an icon in the field of entertainment media, and who has been a writer and radio and television personality for several decades.

Unlike you, however, we do not demand the publication of your apology in a full-page ad in any newspaper. We simply demand a letter of apology from you, which you and she may share with media.

Your failure to do so within the time given by us will leave us no choice but to file against you the proper criminal, civil and administrative complaints before the proper courts and the Committee on Bar Discipline. It would be to your best interests to heed this demand.

Very truly yours,

FERDINAND S. TOPACIO

JOSELITO O. LOMANGAYA

"Anong nangyari?" Tanong tuloy ng mga netizens bakit naging baligtad ngayon? 

Ang iba naman ay bilib sa naging tugon ng kampo ni Cristy Fermin at sinabing matalinl ang kanyanf abogado.