Akbayan Partylist Representative Walden Bello accused
at least three officials assigned to Labor Welfare Offices of Philippine
Consulates in Jordan, Kuwait, and Syria of soliciting sexual favors in exchange
for repatriation, and/or peddling these distressed Filipino women seeking
shelter at the consulate office in prostitution with foreign clients.
How horrendous can a news get?
This is unimaginably evil. These women are runaways
from abusive employers. They must have already endured untold sufferings and
pains before mustering the strength and resolve to orchestrate an escape (in a
strange land and uncharted territory) from their ravenous masters.
These hapless women must have praised the government
to high heavens when they first reached the welfare office –if only they knew
what awaited them. I can only imagine how they felt when they realized that their
supposed saviors (welfare officers) were in fact, low-life predators who preyed
on one’s helplessness.
These perpetrators are officers appointed (presumably
vetted by the appointing office) precisely to give aid to these victimized
Filipino women. That they knowingly victimized these women (compatriots at
that) the second time is the height of depravity that deserves the strongest
condemnation.
If these were proven true, these welfare officers are
monsters, and are a big shame to our national identity.
They must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
They deserve no compassion whatsoever.
These are the crimes that scream for death penalty’s
application, and make you regret Congress ever abolished it.
No less than the President must
make sure that these beasts are brought to justice, and the victims restored
and repaired.
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