SINGAPORE: From April to July this year, Jonnalyn Arcillas, 32, “performed” household chores, sometimes for as long as 15 hours a day, for “would-be employers” in Singapore said to be watching her via CCTV cameras.
She had left her home in Zamboanga city, in the south, for Manila, trusting in a promise by a family acquaintance that in three weeks she would be working as a maid in Singapore.
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