A 20-year old Cambodian domestic worker who had been seriously abused in Malaysia was rescued and sent back to Cambodia on 05 April 2015 after a long process of intervention and assistance to return her to Cambodia.
According to an investigation by ADHOC, the unidentified victim who is from Traeng Trayueng commune, Kampong Speu’s Phnom Sruoch district was sent from Cambodia to work as a maid in Malaysia on 25 May 2010 by Cambodian Labour Supply PIY.
Based on a complaint made by her parents who sought intervention and assistance from Kampong Speu’s ADHOC office on 13 May 2012, they had lost contact with their daughter after her departure.
The domestic worker victim was due to return to Cambodia in 2012; yet she was never returned, contrary to the terms of her employment contract.
ADHOC had intervened to rescue her through the Department of Anti-Human Trafficking of the Cambodia’s National Police and the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training in May 2012.
Initially, the Cambodia Labour Supply PIY argued that the domestic worker victim refused to speak with her parents on phone and accused the parents of demanding money in return for dropping the complaint. However, the victim’s parents accused the company of banning them to talk on the phone with their daughter, to have been aware of situation of their daughter, as well as to threatening their daughter.
Based on ADHOC’s investigation and complaint from her parents, the worker has suffered serious abuse, among others in the form of burns with an iron on her back and face, of molar fractures by having been hit with a shoe, and of having been forced to eat rice mixed with feces.
ADHOC already held a press conference on 27 January 2015. As a result, the domestic worker victim was brought back to Cambodia by the company on 7:30am 05 April 2015.
For more information, contact:
1. Chhan Sokunthea, Head of ADHOC’s Women and Children’s Rights
H/P: 012 344 719/016 873 209
2. Lim Mony, Investigator of ADHOC’s Women and Children’s Rights
H/P: 012 834 449
