Time to institute strict policies in the hiring of Filipina domestic helpers in foreign countries

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=418240411637968&pnref=story

I uploaded the video from Free Middle East shared by former Cong. Ching Plaza, a colleague of mine in the 8th -10th Congress. It shows the brutal beating of a female domestic helper by a Saudi family.

I say it is time to review and make drastic revisions in our policies in sending domestic helpers for employment in foreign countries. As I said in my comment in the thread that while we benefit in sending professionals and skilled workers abroad who come back with enhanced skills and knowledge, thus bringing back added value to our country, e.g.ordinary steel welders being trained for TIG or special alloy welding, nurses learning new practices in modern hospitals and engineers getting experience from say, Bechtel, Fluor, etc., or factory workers in Taiwan, there is no redeeming value we get from sending our mothers and sisters to scrub floors in foreign families' homes whether in the Middle East or Hongkong. Worse, our teachers do not enhance their knowledge and skills but get dumbed down from scrubbing floors or cleaning toilets in foreigners' houses abroad. True, those who suffer cruelties may belong to the minority and they contribute to our forex earnings but even just one incident such as the one we have seen will negate whatever benefits we get. Remember Flor Contemplacion? That was not even a case of abuse but execution after court proceedings. Yet it caused a national trauma. And how many cases happen that do not get to the screen? Rape and molestation, burns from flat irons, and escapes by jumping off from windows? But if we cannot immediately put a stop to it, we should at least do a rigid screening of the foreign families that hire domestics. Can that be done by POEA in cooperation with the governments of countries that hire? I know that DSWD and other agencies do a strict screening of families, especially, foreigners who want to adopt children. So strict, in fact, that many couples give up and go back home without any adopted child. How about instituting such policies?