BY JOB REALUBIT
THE Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday
said the Kuwaiti criminal court has sentenced another Filipina
domestic helper to death for the killing of the 21-year-old
daughter of her employer in 2007.
She was identified as Jakatia Mandon Pawa,
31, of Zamboanga del Norte.
Pawa is the third Filipina domestic helper in
Kuwait to be sentenced to death by hanging after Marilou Ranario
and May Vecina.
DFA spokesman Claro Cristobal said Ambassador
Ricardo Endaya said the embassy would appeal the verdict.
Ranario and Vecina face execution unless Emir
Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah commutes their sentences or they
are pardoned by their victims’ families.
Ranario stabbed her Kuwaiti employer Najat
Mahmoud Faraj Mobarak, 40, Jan. 10, 2005 but the reports about
the attack were sketchy. She was sentenced to death September
2005.
Vecina killed Salem Sulaiman, the
six-year-old son of her employer, last January 2007.
She was sentenced to death July 2007.
She also attacked the victim’s 13-year-old
brother and 17-year-old sister before leaping off the second
floor of her employer’s home. The two survived the attack.
Last December, President Arroyo made a personal appeal to the
Emir to spare Ranario from the death penalty. The Emir, in turn,
promised Arroyo that he will reduce the penalty to life
imprisonment if the victim’s family signs a note of forgiveness.
