An overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia who thought she was already safe after running away from a cruel employer ended up being sexually abused by a person who promised to help her.
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A 14-year old OFW who just given a name "Amira" was sent by a recruiter to work in Saudi Arabia by forging her real age. having been experienced abuse and maltreatment, she decided to run away from her employer. She met a person who said he will help her but instead of doing so, he raped the poor OFW.
According to the report, poverty is what urged the girl to take her chances to apply abroad in spite of her very young age. The recruitment agency forged her papers and made her to look older in order to be able to deploy her in Saudi Arabia last year.
She made it to Saudi Arabia but she was maltreated and abused by her employer prompted her to leave her employer's house.
She met a foreign man who promised to help her but instead, she was sexually abused three times. She said she was able to escape to the man when he met an accident.
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Meanwhile, another 17-year-old OFW also ran way from her employer in Saudi Arabia. She was accused of stealing. Like Amira, her real age and papers were also forged by the recruitment agency. According to her, she was being forced to clean the house of her sponsor's friend even it not written in the contract.
Bothe OFWs are now in the custody of Philippine Overseas Labor Office - Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (POLO-OWWA) in Jeddah while their repatriation are being processed.
According to OWWA, the cases of under-aged OFW being deployed by recruiters continues to rise. They are now taking action to penalized these recruiters.
Rape cases happen everywhere in the world everyday and the results are devastating to the victims and their families. Some offenders were being put to jail while some of them gets around the law almost easily without being caught. Some victims keep it to themselves out of fear or shame. The best way to deal with it is to be bold and take a stand to expose it regardless of the sex offenders position or status. Justice has to be served. Here are some questions and answers you may want to know about rape based on the Philippine law on rape. What is rape? It is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, has an intellectual disability or is below the legal age of consent.The term rape is sometimes used interchangeably with the term sexual assault.
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Is it possible for men to be "raped"?
Yes. If someone forcefully inserted his genitals or any object into a mans behind without that person's consent could be criminally liable for rape.
Can it still be called "rape" if there is no penetration involved?
Not all rape cases involve penetration. The new revised law on rape states that even mere touching of a male genital to the genital of a woman without actual penetration could be considered a rape. Oral sex can also be considered rape if it is made by force or without the consent of the person involved.
Can a woman be possibly raped by another woman?
If the woman was forced to have sex by another woman and inserted any object into her genitals without her consent, the act is still considered rape.
What will be the punishment for the person who has committed rape?
Under Republic Act 8353 or the The Anti-Rape Law of 1997,“Article 266-B. Penalties. – Rape under paragraph 1 of
the next preceding article shall be punished by reclusion perpetua.
However, in the time that this law was made, the death penalty in the Philippines was still in effect and there are clauses provided in the RA that penalizes such act with death.
Should the rape offender took photos and videos and intentionally or unintentionally uploaded it on the internet without the consent of the victim or the person involved, he will also be charged the appropriate penalties like the RA 9995 or the Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act of 2009.
Rape is a serious crime and victims should not hide in the dark. They deserve justice and offenders must be penalized.
A bank employee in Dubai accused a Yemeni police officer in Dubai for sexually harassing her inside the suspect's car. However, the suspect has pleaded not guilty when he appeared before the Court of First Instance on October 1.
The victim, a Filipina, 26, said she met with the suspect in a coffee shop in Deira to promote their bank’s new credit card in May, as reported by Gulf News.
Court records show that the Filipina said the policeman said that he wanted to finish the transaction at the bank where she is working to make sure it wasn’t a scam. He then escorted her to his car.
On the way to the bank, the policeman purposely missed the turn to the bank, kept driving and pulled over to a parking lot where he did the lascivious crime.
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“He moved to the back seat where I was sitting and undressed me forcibly. He coerced me to perform oral sex on him. He also abused me sexually when he failed to rape me. After he dropped me at a petrol station to wash up, I locked myself inside a washroom and called my friend for help,” the Filipina said.
A police officer testified in the court and said the suspect is denying the charges against him, saying it all happened with the Filipina’s own free will.
“During questioning, the suspect claimed that the saleswoman performed oral sex on him and massaged him,” the police lieutenant said.
The suspect is yet to be convicted and will be decided on next hearing which is scheduled on October 29, 2017.
After four long years, the gang rape suspects who attacked a teen lady with "special needs" in Tanay, Rizal on 2013 has now finally arrested. The suspects said that the victim was not forced to do it and that she was at it willingly.
On August of 2013, seven suspects successively raped a 13 year old girl in a remote area in Tanay, Rizal.
The suspects boastfully narrate what they did to the special child and evryone in the community already knew about what happened. The victim's family had no idea that it was the "special child" who was victimized because the girl did not tell them anything.
The girls's grandmother had suspicions when she noticed sudden changes in the young girl's behavior. She talked to her and confessed about what had happened. After learning the girl's horrible ordeal, they decided to file a complaint to the local Police and immediately ordered a manhunt for the arrest of the culprits.
One of the suspects surrendered to the authorities while the other two, who are both minors were caught and turned over to the DSWD.
Four of the suspects had been on the run eversince and was later arrested by the Quezon City Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) with the arrest warrant. They confessed of the gang rape but they insist that they did not force the "special child" and did it on her own will. And according to them, the victim was the one who called them to come over.
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The mother of the "special child" who is an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) immediately flew back home becauses of the development of what had happened to her beloved daughter.
The OFW said that she is happy about the progress of the case but she still want her daughter to undergo counselling because her daughter has been acting differently since the sexual abuse happened.
From a sweet girl, she has turned into a grumpy and easily angered girl that seem to be far different from the girl she knows.
Migration is considered to be a redeeming factor for those who could not find their luck of a high earning job in their own country. But instead of serving as a bread and butter for their family back home, working abroad often causes misery. Most of the domestic workers especially in the Middle East suffer maltreatment and sexual abuse. You can read on the news almost everyday about household workers who has being beaten, sexually molested, maltreated, and worse, losing their lives. They are being treated no less than slaves. No day-offs, not being able to get enough rest and adequate nourishment for their body. Thedocumentary above reveal the real situation of domestic workers in the Middle East. The documentary tackles about the situation of the domestic workers, Filipinas and other nationalities-- how they are being tricked during hiring . They are promised to be working in a certain company with attractive salaries but they landed working in a family as a household worker. Mary Joy applied for a work in the Philippines as a housekeeper in a hotel in Lebanon. When she landed there she brought to a family and told her that there is no job for her in a hotel and all she can have is a job as a domestic helper. Being a domestic helper is the easiest way to work abroad. In the Philippines, most women especially those who did not finish college education or those who find it difficult to be employed try their luck by applying as domestic helpers. knowing all the risks, they can put their life at a stake just to earn a bit more for their family. The problem is that, the laws of the host country lacks provisions about the protection of domestic workers or if ever there is, it is not being implemented well.
The reason why there are women who still want to work abroad despite the risks and alarming incidents of maltreatment is the growing unemployment and lack of opportunities in their home country. For many Filipinas who were not given the opportunity to earn well, being a domestic worker abroad can be the easiest way out of poverty. There are even trainings conducted to those who want to work as a household worker overseas. But these trainings does not include how to fight homesickness especially if your employer do not treat you well. The best way to prevent these abuses and inhumane treatment to our women is to stop sending them to these employers or at least our government make sure that their rights are protected. They are workers, not slaves. They have rights to be treated fairly as humans.
If the government will not act promptly to create jobs and income generating opportunities to its citizens, there will be more women who will be slaves in foreign land. *Documentary Video Belongs to The WHY Foundation
