Balita involving a Filipina- Reactions nyone?
Filipina’s statement was false, says court
By Nour Abuzant/Staff Reporter
A Doha court has found that a Filipina had given a false statement when she claimed that her boss maintained illicit relations with her and she feared he had infected her with Aids.
The court gave her one month’s suspended prison sentence followed by deportation, while the boss - a Spanish national of Indian origin (42) - was cleared of the charges.
The case started when the 23-year-old Filipina voluntarily went to a police station to complain that she had been having an affair with her boss and she had been told by a female compatriot - a housemaid in the man’s house - that she saw anti-Aids medication in his bedroom.
The housemaid, however, denied in the court that she said anything of that sort to the “plaintiff”.
A second witness, a Filipina secretary working in the company, testified in the court that the woman had told her that the statement she gave to the police was “false”.
The woman tried to withdraw the complaint at a later stage, but the court told her it was no longer her decision to make.
The Spanish national denied the allegation throughout the trial saying the medicines in his room belonged to his wife who suffered from urinary tract problems.
An Aids test later confirmed that neither the man nor the “plaintiff” had the disease.
The man’s lawyers claimed in the court that his client was the victim of a malicious vendetta carried out by the Filipina after she was sacked from her job a month before she “reported” the matter.
Presiding judge Mamon Hamour said that the Filipina could not be convicted of having illicit relations because the statement was false.
Legal sources said that the Filipina has filed an appeal against the deportation.
