"The day we met was the day my problems started. He was not the man I knew on Facebook," Mercy said in her suicide note.She said she was traumatised after the man, who identified himself to her as Marco Ritz, threatened to post her naked photos online for the whole world to see.
"He took my nude pics and told me if I say this to anyone he will sell them on the internet and say I am a prostitute, she wrote.Mercy was too afraid to wait for that moment. On September 12, she was found dead in her bed, a bottle of poison by her side. Her Sh3,190, the suicide note and her phone were all by her side. Although she was born in Tanzania, she attended primary school in Kisii, joining Nyakach Girls High School but later transferring to St Michael’s School in Nakuru where she sat her KCSE exams in 2013. This year, she joined Bugema University in Uganda, where she died. Police are investigating the incident amid reports that there is an increase in insidious crimes that have left thousands of Kenyans suffering in silence.
Mercy joined the Facebook page, “Love beyond skin colour (white men and black women)”, where she met Marco. On September 9, he travelled to Kenya and sent money to Mercy, who was then in Kampala. Marco had claimed that he was from Trittenheim but lived in Berlicht, Germany. Mercy’s sister, Sarah Mauya Bundi, on Monday told the Nation that Mercy had travelled to Mombasa and met Marco there. She said she had warned Mercy against meeting the man and, in her suicide note, Mercy said she regretted not listening to her sister.
"As I am writing this, I cannot sit, eat or walk as normal. I am regretting not to listen to my sisters" the note continuesOn the day Mercy travelled to Mombasa, Marco posted a photo on Facebook, indicating that he was at the Kinondo Poa Hotel, near the Galu Kinondo Beach. On Monday, an assistant director at the hotel, Ms Laura Nanyuli, said Marco had been to the hotel twice in April and September this year with a woman whom he described as a lawyer and model. On his last visit, she said Marco did not spend the night in the hotel.
On September 11, Mercy travelled to Nairobi and spent a night in her sister’s house in Embakasi. She could hardly walk and was in pain but when asked what was the problem, she told her sister that she was having a bad dream. In her suicide note, however, she revealed that she was sexually assaulted for two days at a Mombasa hotel. After she travelled back to Kampala, she tried to contact Marco so that he could help her pay for treatment, in vain.
"I have tried to contact him for help to treat myself, he has blocked me in everywhere. I cannot face my sister and tell them I must rest because of him" says the suicide note.After her family was informed of her death, they flew the body to Nairobi on September 14 and reported the matter at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport police station. They also gave police a photo of the suspect, hoping that he would be arrested before he could leave the country. He wasn’t. Find attached the suicide note she left. I can't confirm the photo used.
May he be haunted forever. #lindaobserve
ReplyDeleteThis shit happens even here in nigeria. May God help us
DeleteWhat a world we live in
ReplyDeleteIs that enough reason to commit suicide?
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ReplyDeleteEya...in peace may her soul rest
ReplyDeleteReally sad!
ReplyDeleteOmo, all these news about suicide, & parents killing children, and boyfriend shooting girlfriends after the gal posted a pic on I G. And kidnaping and all sort of bad news lately is getting to much ooo.
ReplyDeleteGod pls help the world. Anyways it's end time. R.I.P to her. *sighs*
Omo, all these news about suicide, & parents killing children, and boyfriend shooting girlfriends after the gal posted a pic on I G. And kidnaping and all sort of bad news lately is getting to much ooo.
ReplyDeleteGod pls help the world. Anyways it's end time. R.I.P to her. *sighs*
So sad and wht a pity dat she choose to book her eternity in hellwit taking life. Wht a shame!
ReplyDeleteI so feel bad for those who choose to commit suicide bcos their souls doesn't rest in peace since it reside in hell when it leaves dis earth.
Pls my people desist frm sucide bcos its pathway is hell.
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ReplyDeleteHappens every day.
ReplyDeleteSilly girls all over the place, meeting up with strangers in strange places.
that's so stupid of her
ReplyDeleteAunty linda....
that's so stupid of her
ReplyDeleteAunty linda....
So sad and big shame dat she choose to book her eternity in hell wit taking her life dat belongs to God.
ReplyDeleteI so feel bad for those who choose to commit suicide bcos their souls doesn't rest in peace since it reside in hell when it leaves dis earth.
Pls my people desist frm sucide bcos its pathway is hell.
that's so stupid of her
ReplyDeleteAunty linda....
So crazy things like this still happens?
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So crazy things like this still happens?
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Social media has brought goodluck to some and ill-luck to some. RIP
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Who dey advice these people to commit suicide.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens to opening up to somebody.
Who dey advice these people to commit suicide.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens to opening up to somebody.
Nawa RIP dear
ReplyDeleteNawa RIP dear
ReplyDeleteWhat a nonsense reason to commit suicide.. I just feel the poor kid just wanted to die. Mental illness!!!
ReplyDeleteJust sad..... may her soul rest in peace
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Hmmmmm
ReplyDeleteOMG!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is so unfair.One of the bane of social media
Hm Mm, nna na was o! Too bad she had to end up dat way! Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteChai! So sad
ReplyDeleteI hope the man is apprehended and made to pay dearly for this.
ReplyDelete~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA
We must learn From this..they are no such things as mistakes,rather lessons
ReplyDeleteThis is truly sad. But why wont girls ever listen; never go to a secluded place with a man you know nothing about, especially one you met on facebook. I'm sure she thought the stories she had heard were just that stories.
ReplyDeleteNow look where it got her. RIP though.
That's her fucking business...... Jor oh
ReplyDeleteYoung girls should be educated on the dangers of meeting strange men on the social media, many of them have fallen foul of sexual predators who are out to hunt young girls. I think serious campaigns should be raised to tackle this menace.
ReplyDeleteI agree
DeleteThis story don reach here ? Marco Ritz is now a celeb in Africa o. That arrogant white man on fb .
ReplyDeleteHmmm so sad!
ReplyDeleteMay her soul Rest in Peace. And may the man be caught and sliced to death. We women too we need help. Social media hmmm. Speechless.
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Some People are so wicked.
ReplyDeleteThis is even worse than yahoo.
Hmn. Misdirection. RIP Mercy.
ReplyDeleteR. I. Please to the dead CEO said so.
ReplyDeleteShe asked for it. What was she thinking she would find when she traveled to meet him??
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Some people are born with wickedness in their vein, I still wonder how people derive joy in hurting other, the poor,girl killed herself out of fear n shame, not everybody on social media are bad, RIP to the dead, pray God will catch that Marco ritz
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Too bad, the ugly side of facebook.
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