Employer accused of assault
Titus Filio
Staff Reporter
A Filipina housemaid filed physical assault charges against her madame who assaulted her right inside the Philippine Embassy yesterday.
Visitors at the embassy’s welfare section were shocked when the employer suddenly punched the housemaid in the face while in the middle of an argument over disputes at work.
A welfare section staff was mediating between the two when the employer suddenly stood up and attacked the housewife. Cooler heads pacified the employer but embassy officials were quick to call the police who led the employer outside the embassy’s premises.
Employer accused of assault
Titus Filio
Staff Reporter
A Filipina housemaid filed physical assault charges against her madame who assaulted her right inside the Philippine Embassy yesterday.
Visitors at the embassy’s welfare section were shocked when the employer suddenly punched the housemaid in the face while in the middle of an argument over disputes at work.
A welfare section staff was mediating between the two when the employer suddenly stood up and attacked the housewife. Cooler heads pacified the employer but embassy officials were quick to call the police who led the employer outside the embassy’s premises.
“We were rather shocked that she attacked her right inside the embassy,” an embassy official said.
He said that the case was “rather isolated” but he added: “it seems it only proved the maid’s claim that she was being maltreated. The maid was escorted by an embassy staff and responding police to the Manama Police Station where she filed an assault case. The maid, in her thirties, sought shelter at the embassy earlier this week claiming maltreatment.
It is not clear whether embassy officials will also file a case against the employer for “unruly behaviour” right inside a diplomatic office. It is not uncommon that arguments between employers and maids become heated whenever they confront each other in disputes being mediated by embassy personnel.
The embassy requested for added security from police yesterday after the incident. Last year, embassy officials lodged a case against a Bahraini national in a similar incident.
Article from: Bahrain Tribune Newspaper- www.BahrainTribune.com