Never again.

That was what Venus Canson, 26, from Hinigaran, Negros Occidental, said after getting away from maltreatment she had suffered from her employer in Singapore .

Because of her problem, Canson said her father succumbed to a stroke and died on Tuesday.

Canson, who had a two-year contract as a domestic helper in Singapore , came home yesterday, saying she could no longer endure the maltreatment of her employer.

She cried as she shared her painful experience with her family and relatives who fetched her at the Bacolod-Silay airport.

She said she was promised a salary of 350 Singapore dollars, but never received a cent.

She left for Singapore to work December 29 last year, and described her short stay with her employer, Low Memei, as “hell”.

“I can bear the work but not the maltreatment,” she said. She said her ordeal started when a friend of her employer commented that she looked beautiful and had a nice hair. Upon reaching home, she said her employer cut her hair for no reason at all.

She said she worked 19 hours a day, but was only given two pieces of bread for breakfast, noodles for lunch and leftovers of her employer for dinner.

She also said she had to feed the child of the couple while kneeling because she could not sit or touch the sofa.

“She was badly jealous of me. I never had a single chance to talk to my male employer or he to talk to me. But his wife was concluding something which was not true,” Canson said.

She thanked Rep. Ignacio Arroyo for facilitating her return to Hinigaran.*GPB

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