Inmate bolts jail to check if wife is cheating
A detained suspect in a robbery case bolted jail just to check if his wife was having an affair.
Ben Rey Gabion escaped from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) facility in Barangay Ungka I in Jaro district Sunday evening. He surrendered to a local radio station a few hours after, but not after seeing his wife with a man he suspects was his wife's paramour.
"I heard a lot of rumors that my wife was having an affair with another man, so many rumors that I became confused and anxious. And so I decided to check the rumors myself if they were true or not... I really wanted to see what my wife was doing outside... I wanted to catch her in the act," Gabion said over dyOK Aksyon Radyo-Iloilo, where he surrendered. "I escaped just to check on my wife."
"I became so anxious because she has not visited me for a week already. I called her several times, so much so that my phone bills piled up, just to ask her to visit me. All I got though were her promises that she would visit, which she never did," he adds.
Gabion said that he scaled the concrete wall shortly after prison officials have conducted a head count Sunday night.
He then proceeded to their home in La Paz district, where he saw his wife Theresa alight from a motorcycle driven by another man, whom he did not recognize, at past 9 pm over the weekend.
"My wife was stunned to see me standing there," he said, after which he immediately confronted his wife about the rumors, asking her where she went. Gabion said that his wife told him that she visited her mother.
"I did not have the chance to talk to the other guy, who left immediately," Gabion said.
After their confrontation, his wife left for her mother's house. Gabion, on the other hand, stayed home and asked his mother to contact the radio station.
"Now that I've seen it for myself, I will now get back inside (the jail)," he declared. "But this would not have happened had she visited me."
And although he insists that his wife is cheating on him, Gabion professes he still loves his wife.
"Even if you're cheating on me, please don't forget to visit me so that I could have somebody to talk to so that I will not be anxious anymore," he stressed. "I will still accept her if she comes back to me and when she will visit me in jail."