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Thursday, February 16, 2017

DOMESTIC ABUSE EXPOSED BY A FILIPINA ON SOCIAL MEDIA

An OFW in Abu Dhabi,UAE, turned to social media to expose the violence being done to him by her Jordanian husband.

Along with a close-up picture of her bruised face. The words: “I suffer for so many years. Please, Mahmoud Abuhalawa, divorce me,”
can be read on the LinkedIn and Instagram profile of Mary Ann Batulanon.

"This has been going on for many years. He beats me up black and blue without any mercy. I cannot take it anymore," Batulanon, 30, told Khaleej Times over the phone. The mother of a four-year old girl has filed for divorce and the case is pending at the Abu Dhabi family court.

However, the husband, who works in a bank, denied the allegations.

"It is not true. She hurts herself every time and goes to the court to file case against me," said the husband. Batulanon works as a receptionist in a car showroom in Abu Dhabi. She got married to Jordanian Abuhalawa in 2012, after converting to Islam.

Batulanon said that from the early days of their marriage, her husband started to hurt her. In fact, a medical record shows that she had bluish discoloration of the skin, bruises caused by external trauma.

Batulanon decided to live in a separate house last week because her husband hurt her again.

"All i want from him now is a divorce. he should also pay for my daughter's maintenance. I [turned] to social media so that the world [may know] what he [has been doing] to me," she said.

The husband said that he is willing to give her the divorce she is asking, but he will take a legal action against her if she slanders his name in social media.

Court documents tell that in 2016, Batulanon filed a divorce from her husband and applied for the custody of her 4 -year-old daughter but the couple was once reconciled and the domestic violence charges against the husband has been dropped.

However, the incident happened again just recently and batulanon again ask for a divorce. Now, the family prosecution had forwarded the case to the court after the husband has failed to appear before the family guidance committee.

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DOMESTIC ABUSE EXPOSED BY A FILIPINA ON SOCIAL MEDIA