As Case Delayed, Former Maid Trainee Suffers
When Heng Hak escaped from Phnom Penh maid recruitment center in March 2011, falling several stories in the process, she unwittingly became part of a groundswell-one in a series of mounting cases highlighting severe mismanagment of recruitment agencies, and the abuses incurred by both trainees and maids in Malaysia. Seventeen months later, however, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has failed to process her case and she has received no compensation from the shuttred T&P Co. recruitment agency for the five months she spent in confinment at their center, or the injuries she sustained during her escape bid that plague her to this day. … Her case of confinement and abuse was just one of a number to appear in the early months of 2011. …
