By RON MEXICO
Staff Writer
BROWNSVILLE, TX - A woman whose photograph was featured Monday on this Blog is threatening to file a lawsuit alleging defamation after being singled out for enduring a strange affliction.
Maria Nalely Tamez, a 28-year-old American living in Matamoros, tells us through her attorney that she indeed suffers from the bizarre malady, but that we erred in bringing her plight to light. Or as her lawyer put it: "You do her a great disservice by making fun of her problem."
The Blog has since removed her photograph from its popular Sidebar Offerings.
"That's odd," said Editor Patrick Alcatraz of the surfacing brouhaha. "The info we got came from her grandmother. It is our position, absolutely, that we merely complied with her grandmother's request that we disseminate that aspect of her suffering in hopes that a cure could be found. There was no malice intended, and we stand by our documented information."
Ms. Tamez (shown in photo accompanying this story) suffers from a mental disorder that has her checking into area motels to eavesdrop on people lodging in adjoining rooms. In the info supplied to this Blog, it was noted that Ms. Tamez's problems began almost five years ago after she caught her ex-husband with a more-attractive woman at The Alligator Motel on Central Boulevard. At that time, she checked into the motel and did listen-in on the adulterous lovemaking going on in the adjacent room, ear-scoping results that she used in her divorce filing, according to her grandmother.
In his letter, Attorney Ishmael Palafox Perez acknowledged that his client does visit motels from time to time, but that she "never has eavesdropped on anyone."
"There are times when weird noise happens and we, as guests of any motel, may approach the walls to listen-in on whatever may be going on, but who goes to a motel solely to do that? It makes no sense, and the grandmother was wrong to go to the press," added Palafox Perez in his courier-delivered letter to The Brownsville Herald-Tribune. "We indeed trust that you will consider my client's position and health in this matter, as well as in any future news stories you may be planning. Aflictions are not material for comedy."
A telephone call to the woman's grandmother went unanswered...
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