Police in Kuwait are investigating whether an employer and his wife were responsible for the death of a Filipina domestic worker who was found to have severe bruising when she died in hospital on January 25.
Amy Capulong Santiago, 33, was pronounced dead on arrival after she was taken to Farwaniya Hospital by her male employer at 10:15 pm, Arab Times reported. The man was arrested and his wife then went voluntarily to Abdullah Al Mubarak Police Station.
Kuwait’s Directorate General of Criminal Evidence said that old and fresh bruises were found on Santiago’s body, mostly on her back. Police are trying to determine whether she died from being beaten.
The incident came as the Philippines government begins to enforce a ban on employment of Filipino workers in Kuwait that was declared on January 19 because of concerns over the rising number of abuse cases and deaths.
President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to pull all Filipino workers out of Kuwait and impose a permanent ban on deployments in the country if another Filipina is raped or dies.
Duterte met on Wednesday with the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the Philippines, Saleh Ahmad Althwaikh, to talk about the situation with Filipinos, ABS-CBN News reported.
Kuwait is a living Hell on the planet
Dapat patayin din ang mga employer na mga salbaje sa mga fil.ofw..unfair noh?..bakit?..basta nlng cla mamtay ng mga pinoy?..dapat unahan kong mamatay ka n mn lng..unahan mo na..patayin cla kong mamatay ka mn lng..
Halimaw talaga karamihan na mga kuwaiti dpat sainio ipalapa s mga Leon mga bwisit
Tama. Dont revenge vengeance is mine said the Lord. Dont repay evil to evil. Repay good.
Matitigas din mga ulo, akala puro dlrs lang, eh iba kultura dun. There’s stl no place like home, being with your loved ones no matter what.
Ramon Miranda pag third world ba,binibigyan n sila ng.karapatang abusuhin tayo?ok.lng n patayin dahil napabilang tayo sa 3rd world country?
This is too much inhuman cruelty by the Kuwaiti employers of the OFWs DHs that treated our Pinays workers as their slaves. OFWs are human beings and as their employees, they deserve respect and dignity. Now, I wish that Kuwait was not liberated from the hands of Saddam Hussain so they should learn to to respect other human with dignity. We support DU30 in his decision to ban OFWs from working in Kuwait.
Sana nga pauwiin nila lahat ng pinoy jan sa kuwait,para naman mabigyan ng leksyon yan cla,
Kawawa naman yung mga ofw natin
I just don’t understand why filipina women still wants to work as DH in Arab countries even if it’s very risky. It’s life or death for a few dollars. There’s a lot who needs helpers in the Philippines.
Ban na lahat para magkaalaman gaano kahalaga ang pinoy…..marami pa nmang iba. ok na medyo magutom keysa patayin ka naman
Hintayin nyo pang dadami ang mamamatay na kababayan natin.may mga iba pa naman country na maaplayan pra mgwork hindi lng kuwait.alam nyo na ngang salbahe sila.gusto nyo pa rin.oo hindi lahat salbahe pero di ba kayo nasasaktan at galit sa ginagawa nila sa mga kababayan natin.