Pinay maid admits abortion try in UAE

A Filipino household helper has admitted before a United Arab Emirates Court that she tried aborting her baby in January, a UAE news site reported Sunday night.

 

The maid, 30, was accused of taking pills to abort a pregnancy following unmarried sex with her boyfriend, according to the report by Gulf News.

 

She entered a guilty plea when she appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday.

 

“Yes, I had consensual sex with (my boyfriend) who impregnated me. I also took abortion pills,” she told presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi.

 

The judge is expected to hand out a ruling on April 29.

 

Prosecutors had charged the maid with having unmarried sex with her Filipino boyfriend, then taking abortion pills.

 

Her boyfriend, who was charged for consensual sex, left the UAE some months back. Another Filipino had also been charged with aiding the maid to carry out the illegal abortion by selling her the abortion pills.

 

Last January, the maid was rushed to a hospital by paramedics at the Dubai International Airport as she was about to board a plane for the Philippines. At the time, she collapsed in pain and bled profusely.

 

Prosecutors claimed the Filipina got pregnant and took six Panadol pills and mixed them in cola. She also took two pills to abort the baby.

'Go back home'

 

When asked if she drank the spiked cola and pills, the maid said, “Yes Sir, I did … all I want is to go back home.”

 

Prosecution records also showed the maid underwent an immediate operation after the abortion attempt.

 

When she recovered, she told police she met her boyfriend in July 2014 and they had a love affair - and consensual sex in his flat in Satwa several times before he left the country. She told prosecutors her boyfriend got her pregnant.

 

“We had sex several times. On the day of the incident, I went to the airport with my sponsor who had canceled my residency and wanted me to go back home. A week before I collapsed at the airport, I purchased two abortion pills from (a Filipino) for Dh400 after I met him in a mall. I took Panadol and Coca- Cola and used the abortion pills,” she said.

 

A paramedic who rushed the Filipina to a hospital told police the Filipina's sponsor insisted that she had bled because of menstruation and not an abortion. — Joel Locsin/RSJ, GMA News