Reports of Philippine embassy personnel posted in the Middle East either raping or selling distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) into prostitution are a cause for alarm, but only if they are proven to be true.

The OFWs are mostly domestic helpers who escaped their employers for various valid reasons, including being raped or sexually harassed, maltreated, beaten or deprived of the agreed upon compensation.

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