Kin seeks justice for 'abused' OFW who died 2 weeks after return from Kuwait


ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 18 2018 05:55 PM
Family members mourn for an OFW allegedly abused by her employers in Kuwait. ABS-CBN News
MANILA - The family of an OFW who allegedly suffered abuse in the hands of her employers in Kuwait called for justice on Sunday after she died from an illness just 2 weeks after returning home. 
Josie Lloren had been working in the Gulf state since 2015 to support her 3 children in Davao City. In November 2017, however, she told her sister that she was being maltreated by her employer's wife and had to find another job, her family told ABS-CBN News. 
They said that was the last time they talked with Lloren before she returned gravely ill to the Philippines in January 26 and was rushed to a hospital. She died there last February 9. 
Lloren succumbed to cardio respiratory arrest secondary to cerebro vascular disease, according to her death certificate. 
"Hindi namin alam talaga kung ano 'yung nangyari doon sa Kuwait. Natanggap naman [namin] na namatay siya; ang hindi namin matanggap na hindi namin alam kung anong dahilan," Lloren's brother, Joel Perez, Sr. told ABS-CBN News. 
(We don't know what happened in Kuwait. We've accepted her death, but we cannot accept that we don't know the reason.) 
"Mensahe ko na lang sa ating mahal na Presidente Rodrigo Duterte na sana mabigyan ng hustisya ang aming kapatid," he added. 
(My only message to our President Rodrigo Duterte is that may our sister be given justice.) 
Duterte had slammed Kuwait after another Filipina worker, Joanna Demafelis, was found dead in a freezer. He alleged that Arab employers routinely rape their Filipina workers, force them to work 21 hours a day and feed them scraps. 
He has also banned the deployment of new workers to Kuwait and ordered airlines to fly home any of the 252,000 Filipinos working there who wish to return.

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