ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Mar. 23, 2014) – Police rescued an 18-year old maid after seeking help from a local radio station claiming she was maltreated by her employers in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines.
Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, a regional police spokesman, said victim has been handed over to the Department of Social Welfare and Development after she was rescued from her employers at a building in downtown Zamboanga.
Huesca said the victim, who was recruited by her co-worker in Ipil town in Zamboanga Sibugay province, managed to send a letter to dxRZ-Radio Mindanao Network which sought police assistance.
Policemen, accompanied by the village chieftain Khaizar Sakandal, convinced the victim’s employers to allow her to leave the premises.
“Accordingly, she was recruited to work in Zamboanga City by her co-helper. She had been working since March 17 however she could no longer endure the alleged maltreatment by her employers.”
“She wanted to go home to the province she came from but they refused telling her to work for few more days to provide her a fare in going back home thus she wrote a letter for help and threw it down to the pavement,” Huesca said in a report sent to the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
It was unknown whether the victim would file charges against her employers, whose surname is Tan, or not. (Mindanao Examiner)
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