Binitay means “Hanged.” When I was found, the report said, “The child when found, was placed inside a plastic bag hanged on a banana palm…when the founder… who was pasturing her carabao within the vicinity heard the cry of the baby. “
Twenty-three years later, I hope to travel back to the Philippines to find my birth parents and to reconnect with my foster family. It has been two decades. It’s time.
Behind the name.
People ask, especially Filipinos, why Binitay? Why did you choose that name for your documentary? Well it is my foreshadowing of where I had received my middle name and where I came from. Within my stowed away adoption papers laid secrets of my life prior to my adoption. The orphanage had given me the middle name “Beni” in short of the Tagalog word “binitay”, which means hanged, described in the photo clip above.
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