Housemaids

There are number of girls going to the middle east as housemaids to earn income from Saudi Arabian household.due to several unpleasant happenings the Foreign Employment Bureau wants all house holders to be qualified before they go but inspite of this there are a number of Sri Lankans who are under aged who slip through the fingers of the authorities with fake documents.

One such instance was Rizana Nazik 17 uyear old girl from the eastern province who had gone to middleast to the betterment of their status.She had been bottlefeeding the infant in question when he choked and died .The family she worked for took the blame on the girl and now she is sentenced to be hanged after being charged with murder of the first degree .She had been made to take a confession during which she had confessed to the crime under duress, after a translator had been provided to her she told the whole story according to her which is true.She had lied about her age to get to Saudi which gives her a credibility of zero.