DAVAO CITY – The families of Rene Baterbonia and Divine Adili, the two Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles who drowned in a resort in Dipaculao, Aurora on June 8, are demanding accountability from the Katipunan-based school and full disclosure over the incident, the Torreon and Partners Law Firm said Saturday, June 13.

In a statement read by Israelito Torreon, counsel for the Baterbonia family, Ateneo head coach Tab Baldwin expressed only remorse in a public video statement, however, it did not provide any answers, including who decided to conduct the team-building activity.

"What safety precautions were taken, the sequence of events from 2:30 p.m. until emergency services were called, why the team was positioned away from the resort's lifeguard-protected area, or why no water safety personnel were deployed," Torreon said in a press conference here.

Torreon said the families of the victims are seeking five specific actions from the university, not their statements through "nameless, faceless, and sterile" faculty and educators.

First, they asked Ateneo to designate a clear point of contact who will directly communicate with the families of Baterbonia, 18, and Adili, 21.

The university has only been providing its statements from the start, Torreon said.

Second, allow the people, the teammates, to speak freely on the incident, acknowledging that it happened during the team-building activity. Giving those who witnessed it an institutional guarantee that they may speak without fear of consequences to scholarships or roster positions.

Third to fifth, Torreon said are: Giving a full account of what happened during their stay, including activities, instructions, warnings, and precautions taken or not taken; acknowledging that the tragic incident happened under Ateneo’s watch, and extending unconditional support to both families.

Rovelyn, Baterbonia's mother, is still working to bring her son home.

She said she learned of his son's death through a phone call she almost did not answer, thinking it was a fan ordering jersey merchandise. She only confirmed his son's death through a video call while he was in transit.

Baterbonia was the second of seven children from Talacogon, Agusan del Sur. He left for Manila on June 4, four days before his death. Baterbonia told his coach at Ateneo de Davao that he would not come home for five years because to lift his family out of poverty.

Torreon said that the Adili family in Nigeria has reached out to the law firm. The Adilis, who are also mourning and waiting for answers, said that Divine flew to the Philippines to play basketball for Ateneo.

The university faculty urged humility and asked the administration to acknowledge wrongdoing based on the Ateneo's Jesuit values of magis, cura personalis, and "men and women for others."

"There does not have to be years of litigation," the statement said.

“Rene wanted five years. He had four days. Ateneo knows what to do. It has always been known,” the statement said, adding that there only has to be what Ateneo has taught for a century: "Examined conscience, honest admission, genuine reckoning, and commitment to make things right."

Torreon and lawyer Jimmy Bondoc are representing the Baterbonia family pro bono.

They are also verifying the video allegedly from Efii Kalogirou, Baldwin’s wife, claiming she warned Ateneo before that “children were not safe around him” and called for his removal from the campus.

Torreon said the video could be important if confirmed as authentic.