“For me, I will forgive. God is forgiving. But we have laws and we have to follow it,” Camacho said.
Camacho said whenever she cannot sleep at night, she goes out of their house where the banner of her missing grandchildren is displayed.
“I pray and in my mind I talk to them. I worry about them. If they are sleeping or if they have anything to eat. I hope they are not being abused,” Camacho said.
“I am not going anywhere until everything’s okay,” Camacho said, adding she had already quit her job in Tacoma, Washington.
“They are my babies. I raised them since birth,” Camacho said, adding that the missing children called her “Grandma Denang.”
Camacho said she and Elbert Quitugua, the girls’ grandfather, took care of them. Their mother worked on Guam while their father, a former police officer, resided in Pohnpei.
Camacho said she last saw the girls before she went to the states last November.
“I could not believe the news about their disappearance until I talked to Elbert,” Camacho said.
“I told myself, forget everything because I wanted to be there for my girls,” Camacho said, referring to her decision to resign from her job in the states.
She has been hoping for some good news since she returned to Saipan on June 8.
Camacho said she would like to thank federal and local authorities as well as all the volunteers and members of the community who are helping in the ongoing search for the children.
“Whenever I see them, I hug them,” Camacho said, referring to volunteers she saw on the road.
