News Agency
\nMANILA
\nThe Philippines on Wednesday welcomed a Kuwaiti court\u2019s decision to sentence to death by hanging a Kuwaiti woman convicted of murdering a Filipino maid.
\nJeanelyn Padernal Villavende, 26, died from injuries inflicted by her employer\u2019s wife in December 2019. The case prompted the Philippine government to temporarily stop sending domestic workers to the Gulf state in early 2020.
\nThe ban was lifted when Kuwaiti authorities filed charges against Villavende\u2019s employers and introduced legal protection measures for Filipino household staff.
\nThe husband of the woman convicted of Villavende\u2019s murder was sentenced to four years in prison for not reporting the crime.
\nIn a series of tweets on Wednesday, Filipino Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., said: \u201cThank you, Kuwait. The Criminal Court sentence(d) a Kuwait citizen to death for the murder of her Filipino household worker, Jeanelyn Villavende.\u201d
\nQuoting Philippine Embassy lawyer, Fauzia Salem Al-Sabah, Locsin said that the court\u2019s decision was \u201cfair and in accordance with law and Shariah. I owe the Kuwait ambassador (to the Philippines) a blood debt of gratitude. They took my vow seriously: Blood for blood, life for life. Thank you, Kuwait,\u201d he added.
\nPhilippine envoy to Kuwait, Mohammed Noordin Pendosina Lomondot, said he hoped that the verdict would \u201cserve as a reminder to everyone that no Filipino is a slave to anyone, anywhere, and everywhere, and that justice will always come to the defense of the weak and the oppressed.\u201d
\nPhilippine media reported that Villavende\u2019s relatives were relieved to hear about her murderer\u2019s death sentence. \u201cNow she will suffer the same fate as Jeanelyn,\u201d Villavende\u2019s uncle, Moises, was quoted as saying.
\nHowever, they expressed regret at what they described as a lenient sentence for the killer\u2019s husband, as a forensic examination conducted by the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation indicated that Villavende had been tortured and abused for weeks before she died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
News Agency MANILA The Philippines on Wednesday welcomed a Kuwaiti court\u2019s decision to sentence to death by hanging a Kuwaiti woman convicted of murdering a Filipino maid. Jeanelyn Padernal Villavende, 26, died from injuries inflicted by her employer\u2019s wife in December 2019. The case prompted the Philippine government to temporarily stop sending domestic workers to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n