By Vir B. Lumicao
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| Consul Saret is endorsing the case to police for action |
A Filipina domestic helper who was fired on the spot by her
employer last Wednesday after her Indian stalker harassed and assaulted her in
public at a kindergarten in Lohas Park, Tseung Kwan O, has found a new
employer.
The woman had two employers waiting to talk to her on the
phone when she went to an employment agency last Saturday. The agency had heard about her case and was willing to help. Before noon, the
helper had already signed a work contract with one of the employers.
Her remaining concern is the Hong Kong
police’s refusal to act on her complaint against her former boyfriend who has been stalking, harassing and blackmailing her and smearing her family and
14-year-old daughter on Facebook.
On Monday afternoon, the 30-year-old Filipina met with
Consul Paulo Saret, head of the assistance to nationals section of the
Consulate, who expressed surprise that the police saw no merit in her
complaint, and ignored the bruise she sustained on her left arm when the man had
grabbed her.
Consul Saret listened to the woman’s narration then let her
write a letter stating her complaint on an ATN form. He said he would write a
note to the police VIP liaison endorsing the victim’s letter complaint for
police action.
The helper told Saret the stalker had been harassing her and
verbally abusing her since she stopped giving him money and refused to take out
a $60,000 bank loan for him. She said she given money regularly to the man for
over a year out of fear.
When she broke off all communications with him last week on
the advice of groups she consulted out of desperation, he warned her she could
not escape from him and threatened to ruin her and her family, the Filipina said.
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| The Filipina was terminated on the spot after her stalker created a scene at her ward's school |
Social Welfare Attaché Lucita Villanueva also met with the
woman and advised her on how to handle the situation, to focus on her job and
her children and shut out her tormentor.
Meanwhile, the 39-year-old recognizance holder, a status
that prevents him from deportation pending resolution of his torture claim,
seems to have been emboldened by the police inaction.
Over the weekend, he created clone Facebook accounts of the helper,
her former live-in partner and their teenaged daughter and posted their pictures
on the faked pages with malicious captions.
On the helper’s bogus account, the man depicts the mother as
offering her daughter for sex to any interested man. He made similar
suggestions on the fake account of the daughter.
On Saturday, the stalker created another FB account in the
name of the victim’s ex-partner and posted his photo with the child with a
caption in which the father was purportedly saying he was having great sex with
his daughter.
Officers at the complaints desks of the Tsim Sha Tsui and
Wan Chai police stations, who were shown the fake FB accounts, told the woman
they could not do anything because the man’s nasty and lurid posts did not
measure up to a cyber crime.
The officers only repeated the advice given her by well-meaning groups not to talk to him again,
change her phone number, block the man from her phone and from the FB account,
tell her relatives to do the same, and to report the matter to Facebook.
Early on, police in Tseung Kwan O who responded to the
commotion caused by man at the kindergarten school dismissed
the incident as a “financial dispute” after listening to the harasser and the
woman’s male employer.
The stalker had apparently told the police that it was the Filipina who owed her a lot of money, that was why he was after her.
