The former president, who is detained at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) in Quezon City, will probably enjoy Christmas a bit this year. We say “a bit” because she’d probably be happier if she were out and about. But, it’s plunder she’s facing so she has to be confined in some way.
“The Sandiganbayan First Division has allowed the family of the detained former president and current Pampanga congresswoman to spend December 24, 25, 31, 2013, and January 1, 2014 with her,” reports ABS-CBN News correspondent RG Cruz on ABS-CBNnews.com.
The report cited the actual court order, which reads, “Acting on accused Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s urgent motion, dated December 13, 2013, for humanitarian considerations, and there being no objection from the prosecution, the Court hereby grants the said motion and Arroyo’s immediate family members are hereby allowed to be and stay with the accused the whole day of December 24, the whole day of December 25, the whole day of December 31, and the whole day of January 1 at her detention quarters at the VMMC.”
Well, now we all know where the whole clan will be on those dates.
