“Every time I wake up in the morning, I feel like I am having a bad dream, a nightmare. It is very sad that my dream is not false. It is a reality,” the children’s mother, Jermain Quitugua, said in an interview.
“This is unbelievable that this has happened to me at all. There are so much emotions going on in my mind,” she added.
“I am trying to do something within my power to assist in finding them,” she said.
She goes daily to the Kagman Community Center and joins other volunteers who are looking for her daughters “rain or shine.”
She also lights candles and puts food on the place where they were last seen — the cement slab across from the bus shelter in As Teo.
“I spend time there and try to calm my mind,” she said. “I have provided my children with all their needs as much as I possibly could,” she added.
“My family is a very loving family. They taught me what is right and wrong. They showed unconditional love for myself and for all of my children.”
Quitugua worked on Guam while her parents looked after her children on Saipan. The children’s father, a former police officer, now lives in Pohnpei.
Quitugua thanked the Variety, the first media outlet to report about the missing children, for the posters, newspaper announcement, and Dickerson & Quinn for donating banner with photos of Faloma and Luhk and contact information.
Quitugua also thanked the community for their untiring support in and donations for the searches, as well as local and federal authorities.
Elbert, Quitugua’s father, said their search continues even as they hold daily family prayers at their compound in Santa Lourdes, As Teo.
Last week, Bridge Capital LLC donated $500 to the CNMI Women’s Association so it can continue to join search and provide assistance to ongoing operations.
Close to 200 volunteers joined local and federal authorizes in the search over the weekend, DPS acting spokesman PO2 Jason Tarkong.
Over 700 volunteers have joined the search since May 25.
This is on top of the 90 local and federal authorities, the FBI’s Child Abduction Response Deployment Team, and aerial searches conducted by the Air Force and the Navy.
