OFW SEX SLAVES!

Posted by royluga on September 10, 2007 · 1 Comment

The figures presented in Karlo Mongaya’s site concerning human trafficking of Filipinas is very disturbing! The video depicting how two senior citizen Americans traveled 6,000 miles away from their home, Mr. Troop Edmunds and Mr.Jerry Hawe, to rescue Lani, a Filipina from an alleged sex slavery syndicate in Malaysia was so moving. It shows how helpless Lani were, under the dictates of her ward. She went abroad in the hope of finding greener pasture only to be, allegedly, enslave through fear, intimidation, duress and, maybe, even drugged to become a puppet of her ward. What she earned out of her sweet, flesh and tears is not even enough to repay her indebtedness for food, clothing and shelter, if her ward is to sum it all. I thought that the Filipina rescued by Mr. Edmunds and Mr. Hawe from the alleged syndicate, is just among the 30 women allegedly held against their will in Limbang, Malaysia.

Research made by Karlo based on the studies conducted, however, revealed that Lani and her 30 other former companions still left in Malaysia are just part “of about 400,000 women trafficked within the Philippines annually, according to the US State Department’s Human Rights Report in 2005.” Are these Filipinas considered part of our OFWs? Are they protected by OWWA? If not for this two senior citizen Americans who stopped at nothing to recover Lani, these incident could not have been publicized. I wonder, however, what has happened to that maid in the Middle East who was allegedly raped by her ward.

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