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Abducted Pinay escapes prostitution ring in Kuwait

abs-cbnNEWS.com | 07/19/2009 6:00 PM

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A Filipina household service worker in Kuwait recently escaped a Bangladeshi prostitution ring who kidnapped her three months ago.

“Lucy”, not her real name, escaped the prostitution syndicate last July 11 after the guard assigned to look after her got drunk.

“Sana po matulungan po ako ng embassy na mabigyan ng hustisya sa nangyari sa akin kasi po sobrang sakit ng nangyari sa akin. Sana matulungan nyo po akong makauwi sa Pinas at makapiling ko po mga anak ko po," Lucy appealed after her escape.

The Philippine Embassy made an assurance that it will attend to Lucy’s case.

“Nakikipagtalastasan na uli kami sa CID at sa Ministry of Interior para matigil na ang pangingidnap ng mga Pilipina na ipinagbebenta sa white slavery gangs sa Jleeb Al Shuyoukh at nakatakda akong makipag-meeting sa chief of police ng Jleeb Al Shuyoukh," Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Ricardo Endaya said.

Lucy arrived in Kuwait in November 2007. It was in April 9, 2009 when she reportedly ran away from her employer purportedly due to physical abuse she received from her boss’ children.

The native of Davao City reportedly hailed a taxi and asked to be taken to the Philippine Embassy. Unfortunately, she was allegedly brought instead to a prostitution syndicate.

“Sabi ko ihatid ako sa embassy, pero hinatid po ako sa Farwaniya. Inakyat po ako sa mataas na building, iyong pinakamataas, doon may nakahintay na dalawang lalaki. Ginamit po nila ako. Ni-rape po nila ako,” Lucy tearfully recalled.

Two Bangladeshi nationals allegedly raped her for two days and then brought her to Jleed Al Shuyoukh where she was sold for 150 Kuwaiti Dinars or P24,750.

“Gusto ko talagang tumakas pero sabi niya kung gusto mo mabuhay, huwag ka nang tumakas. Kaya iyak po ako nang iyak. Ginamit po niya ako ng tatlong beses,” she said.

After that, she said she was forced to work in a prostitution den. “Kabilang building lang po may kuwarto. Apat na divide (curtains) po, may tatlong babae, may isang Nepal, Indonesia at Sri Lanka,” she said.

“Yong pinakamalaking kita ko 100 at saka 40, at saka 30. Ang bayad po ng isang customer 3 KD, ang 1 KD po ibigay sa naghanap ng customer, Yung 1 KD po sa may-ari ng kwarto at ang 1 KD po mapunta sa akin at pag-uwi ko sa gabi ‘yong kita ko kunin ng taong bumili sa akin,” she said.

She recounted that one of her customers was even a Filipino.

“May Pilipino pong gumamit sa akin. Humingi po ako ng tulong, sabi ko kabayan tulungan mo ako makalabas dito, pero sabi niya kabayan sorry, di kita matulungan takot ako sa Bengali. Ginamit po niya akong isang beses,” she said.

Lucy thought of escaping to end her ordeal but decided not to after witnessing an incident where an Indonesian victim who attempted to escape was beaten.

“Naisip ko po talagang tumakas. Ang hirap dati po yong Indonesian na nahuli na tumakas, sinaktan nila nang todo naisip ko po may mga anak ako,” said Lucy. Report from Maxxy Santiago, ABS-CBN Middle East News Bureau, Kuwait 

as of 07/19/2009 6:00 PM

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KUWAIT CITY, July 18: A Filipina household service worker employed by a Kuwaiti family sought refuge at the Philippine Embassy this weekend after allegedly suffering severe maltreatment for almost two years at the hands of her lady employer. Jenny, 41, single and a native of Alabang, Manila was sobbing in pain as she narrated to the Arab Times on Saturday the ‘burning’ torture that her lady employer allegedly did on her. “There was no single day that she did not hurt me. She loved hurting me,” cried Jenny as she showed all the scars and fresh wounds dotting her body. She recounted that her lady employer would usually time her whenever a household task is to be done. “She wants me to finish everything fast, but I’m the only housemaid at home and she has two small kids. We’re staying in a flat with four rooms and with four bathrooms. I do all the household chores, cook, clean, baby-sit and laundry. Sometimes, due to extreme fatigue, I tend to work slowly and she would be very mad at me and the torture begins,” she stated. She narrated that her lady employer had fun torturing her by heating a knife on the stove and once it is scorching hot, she would place the hot knife on any part of the latter’s body leaving burns and blisters.

“I kept on begging her not to do it. I said, enough, enough madam, but she won’t stop until my skin is burnt and blistered. It was horrible. She looked like a devil hitting me with the hot knife. How can a normal person do that?” sobbed Jenny whose wrists, arms, left foot and back were covered with bandage to prevent burnt infection after coming from the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital for treatment. Her ears resembled like a crunchy chicharron after her lady employer burnt them with a knife. “She burned my ears, because there was a time when she called me and I wasn’t able to go to her immediately because I was doing something at the kitchen so she got angry and burned my two ears for not replying to her quickly,” she stated as tears welled in her eyes.

The lady employer also burned her hands and arms with the hot knife for not washing the dishes quickly. “She burned my legs and foot for walking slowly, she burned my nape too and she boxed me on my eye so that I cannot see things clearly,” outlined Jenny. The lady employer also did not spare Jenny’s lips. As she narrated her harrowing experience, she pointed to her blistered, flaking and discoloured burnt lips. “She also hit my back using a water hose and lashed me with the ‘oqal’ of her husband,” she stated, showing her scarred back with newly bandaged burn wounds. The ‘oqal’ is the doubled black cord generally made of tightly woven black goat-hair and sheep’s wool, that is used to secure the ‘Ghutra’ or headdress of Arab men in place.

The lady employer also cut the shoulder-length hair of Jenny leaving her almost bald. “I want to fight back but I was scared because she’s six-months pregnant and I might harm her baby so I endured all the beatings,” she pointed out. After inflicting pain on her, the lady employer would usually give her some cream to treat the burns in various parts of her body. “I really can’t understand why she’s doing that. She would even ask me to wear gloves while washing the dishes to protect my hands and give me hand moisturisers,” she stated.

Last week, the lady employer allegedly threatened to burn Jenny’s eyes and face, prompting the latter to run to the embassy for help. “I finally decided to run to the embassy for help because only God knows, I may not be able to control myself and I might be forced to fight back and I might harm her and the baby in her womb,” she stated. She called first the local manpower agency that recruited her and asked for help but the man from the agency refused to help her. “I told him, please help me, take me out from this hell, but the guy at the agency even scolded me and told me not to go to the agency or he will kick me out of the agency. I called them five times. So I decided to sneak out of the house and go to the embassy” she claimed.

Meanwhile, Philippine Ambassador Ricardo Endaya disclosed that the embassy has already hired a Kuwaiti lawyer for Jenny so appropriate charges will be filed against her lady employer. “I’m still at a loss how a human being can do this to her fellow human being. I hope the Kuwaiti authorities will not close their eyes on this so that justice will be served and the employer should be castigated for committing such inhumane acts,” he stressed. “I want her to be in jail. She should pay for what she has done to me,” cried Jenny as she hopes to go back to the Philippines after getting the justice that she wants.

Submitted by kman2263 on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 00:13.


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