Monday, April 2, 2007

Filipina Beaten By Her Employer In Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY: Her face is swollen, black and bluish. She cannot open her swollen left eye and can barely open her right eye. Her left arm was burnt with a flat iron by her lady employer while her right arm is wrapped with a bandage due to wounds she sustained when she escaped from the fourth floor of her employers’ residence in Salmiya using a clothes line. Beatrice (not her real name), 24, a Filipino domestic worker from Cagayan Valley, northern Philippines, can hardly open her mouth and complained of a painful ribcage while she recounted on Saturday to the Arab Times her harrowing experience at the hands of her Kuwaiti lady employer and Egyptian husband.

Philippine Labour Attache Leopoldo De Jesus and Assistant Labour Attache Elmira Sto. Domingo were also present during the interview at the Mubarak Al-Kabeer hospital. “Both of them have been beating me up for three months now for unknown reason. I have been taking good care of their four children and doing all the household chores,” she stated. Beatrice arrived in Kuwait on January 14, 2006 in search of a greener pasture to help her other siblings in their schooling, being the eldest in the brood of five... (Arab Times) ...full story here

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