A Filipino domestic worker allegedly abused by her employers in Saudi Arabia has died four days after flying home to Cebu in the Philippines.
According to a Facebook post, Marivic Villarejo left Riyadh on February 16. She was at the airport in the Saudi capital when some Filipinos saw her and wanted to help her.
Pictures of Villarejo showed she was badly malnourished.
The post said Villarejo’s employers had not paid for her plane ticket to Cebu and did not even take her to the airport.
Some Filipinos who saw her felt pity for her, given her frail physical condition.
Four days after she left Saudi Arabia, Villarejo died in Cebu. Another Facebook post said Villarejo was abused by her employers and not given sufficient food.
But no other details have been revealed about her employers or the circumstances that led to her leaving Saudi Arabia.
Many Filipinos have expressed their condolences to Villarejo’s family.
Update: Saudi employer failed to pay maid who died after flight home
Read: Filipina maid in Saudi Arabia pleads for help over abuse fears
RIP kabayan
Ahay…..dear God pls spare our kababayan from all these horrible cruelties of SAUDI CRUEL BARBARIC ACTS……
Condolence po…
Condolence po sa family.
Kawawa nman ang tao inabuso pa sa ibayung dagat pangulong d030 tulongan mo po itong ofw natin na ng buwis buhay para sa familia maiahun lang sa kahirapan rest in peace po sa mga naulila
makita yata sa visa nya kong sino ang emloyer niya…
May Gejon Beñalet no proper english grammar wrong meaning you
Dreadful story! The Phillipinos should boycott Saudi Arabia until they set up a better system to protect vulnerable foreign workers! The family need to be prosecuted for their inhuman treatment!
I hope the government can do something about the employment in Philippines. The thing is, filipinos tend to work abroad because of lack of employment and low economy in the Philippines for the family’s future not knowing that in the end, we are just being abused by other nationalities.
Karamihan sa mga among arabs ay hindi tao mga demons sila????mapang abusong sekswal,pisikal,mental at spiritwal iba ang religious beliefs nila????(i said karamihan!)sana wala ng nanay kapatid kaibigan na dadanas ng kamatayan sa bansa ng mga arabyano sa ngalan ni Hesus ating Poon????
This is Appalling..The employers need to be charged for the way they treated her…
My condolences to the Family
Her employer and the agency have punishment for what happened to her…..
Condolences to the family !
Condolence????
God bless you kabayan, so sad…
Condolence to the family and RIP kabayan
RIP….AMEN
Filipinos around the world should call for justice for this abused maid. I encourage a mass protest against the KSA government. We are doing a street demonstration in Japan for this.
Curse you bitch!!! Filipina like her dont deserved this!! Might be you Lawarence Young…
Rest in peace. These pigs are treating our people like slaves! Sick kaayo!