One Pinay OFW in Singapore has now received the justice she long for a period of time.She was extremely abused by her employer by starving her and not giving enough food in Singapore that was expressed last December 2015. The employer of the Pinay domestic helper pleaded guilty and presently in prison and will give a penalty and they are identified as Lim Choon Hong, 47 years old will pay a penalty amounting to $10,000 and three weeks in pris*n. His wife Chong Sui Foon, same age of her husband 47, was serving three months in pris*n. Mr. Hong was convicted for the violation of the "Employment of Foreign Manpower(Work Passes) Regulations 2012" requiring the employers to give money for the foods of her employee and medical treatment for their household service worker.
Chong the wife of Lim was found guilty for helping for the husband's wrongdoing for committing the violations. The Pinay OFW was identified as Thelma Oyasan Gawidan was provided only by a couple of having two meals of food every day that results to the abused Pinay OFW of losing weight from 49 kilograms to 29 kilograms for a period of 15 months. The husband is responsible for buying of Food of the Pinay Domestic helper while the family was eating different food compare to Gawidan.
And the food of the Pinay OFW compared to the family of her employer is lesser in quantity and nutrition that makes her lose weight. And even for drinking water, the Pinay domestic helper needed to ask to allow her to take some water from the faucet.The Pinay domestic helper menstruation was halted after February 2013 and beginning to lose the hair after a couple of months.
The wife of Lim preventing the Pinay Domestic helper of using the toilet inside their home and only using the public toilet in the condo. Gawidan has only the permission to take a shower twice a week and Chong will guard her outside the toilet during her shower. In the time of the trial, the husband said that his wife had recently suffered from anorexia nervosa it is an obsession of losing weight through the refusal of eating meals and from the obsessive to compulsive mental confusion. Mr. Lim said that their lifestyle"revolved around food and cleanliness."
Source: INQUIRER.NET
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