This is one story should make the government think of a better way to promote jobs for filipinos. The story and the situation has been repetitive, though there are success stories in other areas, and few are unfortunate, still the demeaning job is degrading and an advocate of slavery. We must stop the Domestic helping jobs abroad. The government is capable of solving this ill if seriously they will create alternatives that will replace these jobs for a better and dignifying one. The proposal to eliminate DH jobs is up for the Congress to do so, it is their job and they know better to resolve the matter for the favor of better jobs and lives for all.
A Filipina maid plans to pursue charges against her former
employer whom she accused of starving and beating her for nearly one-and-a-half
years.
Nenita Batiancila Elcamel said she was made to work round
the clock with little to no food and feared for her life, Malaysia's The Star
Online reported Sunday.
Elcamel was rescued by police from her ex-employer’s
condominium in Kelana Jaya on Nov. 13. Her head was bloodied and her body bore
several bruises when she was rescued.
“I became so thin that I would break down in tears when I
saw myself in the mirror,” said the Cebu native.
Last Friday, the former employer pleaded guilty at the
Petaling Jaya magistrate’s court to hitting the maid. She was fined RM4,000 and
jailed for a day.
But her woes do not appear to end there - a spokesman of
Elcamel's foreign worker recruitment agency is planning to file a civil case
against the former employer.
“We want to get justice for Nenita and make this a lesson to
employers to treat their maids as humans,” the report quoted the agency's
spokesperson as saying.
The report said Elcamel weighed about 132 lbs when she
started work in Malaysia in 2013. But at the time of her rescue, she weighed a
mere 88 lbs.
She said she was only given water, slices of bread or a pack
of instant noodles for the whole day.
She also said her former employer would sometimes starve her
for two days.
“Sometimes I felt like collapsing because I was so hungry
but she would beat me with a hanger or a stick or pour water on me,” she said.
When the employer’s husband bought her food, she said the
woman would throw it into the trash can.
“She deducted RM400 from my salary every month for my food
and toiletries. She also charged me for using the electricity and water,”
Elcamel said.
She said her employer
would wake her up at 5 a.m. and make her clean each room for an hour.
“She said that she was paying me a lot of money and I had to
earn everything she was paying me for," she said.
Police brought Elcamel out of the condominium after
neighbors called police and said the suspect had left her home alone with a
gash on her head.
Elcamel said her former employer also attacked her with an
aerosol spray can when she was not satisfied with her work. — Joel Locsin/JDS,
GMA News
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