Midsayap OFW leaps from 3-story building to escape rape
Breaking News • 23:08 PM Fri Jan 9, 2015
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By:
Edwin Fernandez
MIDSAYAP,
North Cotabato – A 39-year-old Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) survived a
three-floor building fall after her employer allegedly sexually molested her in
Saudi Arabia, relatives said.
Maria
Consuelo Navarette is now in the hospital but suffered fractured legs, back
injuries and bruises sometime in December, according to Rose Andolana, a distant relative.
Speaking to DXMS-Radyo Bida,Andolana
said another OFW who hails from Pigcawayan and works as a nurse in a hospital in
Dammam informed them that Navarette, also known there as Ali, was confined in
the hospital.
Andolana
said Ali told them her male employer sexually molested her and heard him saying
she will be ‘finished off.’
After
she leaped from the window of the three storey building, she landed on a water
tank where a driver helped and rushed her to the hospital.
The
unidentified employer who was a police officer wanted settlement and vowed to
pay Ali as long as she withdraw the case against him. Ali refused.
Her
relatives back home are seeking help from the Overseas Workers Welfare
Administration (OWWA).