'Ms. Ong can't take it anymore,' said her counsel Ferdinand Topicio in a media briefing on Saturday.'She said if the lawmakers want to send her to jail, she'll just go to jail instead of appearing again in a legislative hearing and be subjected to humiliation, bullying or being ridiculed in front of millions of people. Even in the Women's Correctional she will accept it. She no longer wants to testify,' he said.
Topacio stressed that that this was not his advice to his client because lawyers 'only give advice about legal issues not on the emotional or mental.''That is her own appeal. whether you will take that appeal or not, that is up to you because you have the power, but we are appealing to your better nature, do not subject her anymore to these indignities,' he said.According to Topacio, Ong is currently suffering from 'mental health problems.