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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 19:09

Was this maid provided via an agency? Dreadful business this, you must report to the police the names of everyone involved.

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 14:59

Further to Gorobattie's post, is it right that Ginnee won't be able to sponsor another maid (should she want to!) until this one is found, visa cancelled, left the country/transferred to someone else etc etc? Not sure if this has already been covered but unless the law has changed there won't be a problem sponsering another maid. I had a maid abscond nearly two years ago and was able to sponser another maid straight away. As far as I'm aware, the police have never caught up with the absconding maid. Sorry you are going through this Ginnee, as I well remember, it's very stressful.

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 14:44

How is it that every housemaid has a cousin or 2 or 4 in Dubai? The situation sounds very sinister and I have to wonder if the "cousin" isn't involved in this. "Finder's Fee"???? Yes, they all have so many cousins, aunts, friends; our maid calls all the ladies in her church group her sisters. What's that saying about everyone in the world is connected to everyone else by a certain number of relationships - maybe they did the study among Dubai's maid population:-) THey give a new meaning to "extended family". :)

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 14:42

LOL SQ! I'll scrutinise mine a lot closer when she comes in later! You let her out? O M G She's agency. I can't be trusted to look after one myself.

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 14:26

How is it that every housemaid has a cousin or 2 or 4 in Dubai? The situation sounds very sinister and I have to wonder if the "cousin" isn't involved in this. "Finder's Fee"???? Yes, they all have so many cousins, aunts, friends; our maid calls all the ladies in her church group her sisters. What's that saying about everyone in the world is connected to everyone else by a certain number of relationships - maybe they did the study among Dubai's maid population:-)

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 14:26

LOL SQ! I'll scrutinise mine a lot closer when she comes in later! You let her out? O M G

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 14:22

LOL SQ! I'll scrutinise mine a lot closer when she comes in later!

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 13:49

How is it that every housemaid has a cousin or 2 or 4 in Dubai? The situation sounds very sinister and I have to wonder if the "cousin" isn't involved in this. "Finder's Fee"????

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 13:24

Sorry to hear this Ginnee, seems it can happen to all of us. For sure your friends maid knows what is going on, and I also say it is unlikely your maid is in a dangerous situation. Maybe your maid's cousin has spun some ridiculous story to her employers about the reason your maid absconded and they have decided to not get involved .... who knows !! Hopefully you can get justice, I would be beside myself with being taken for a ride like that. Even if she did leave willingly that does not mean she has not gotten herself into a dangerous situation. Some of these people come here from small villages and poor education and can be very naive about what they are getting themselves into.True, but Ginnee has enough to worry about and sorry to say but her family and their money must come first now. WHat is the point in searching for the maid now? Even if they found her, she may claim that she was being held against her will just to gain their pity and in the hope that they will not be too upset with her. She knows that by now there will be a ban on her, and she is long gone. I ahve heard a lot of them got to RAK, so sanddy look out for her :\:

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 13:05

Sorry to hear this Ginnee, seems it can happen to all of us. For sure your friends maid knows what is going on, and I also say it is unlikely your maid is in a dangerous situation. Maybe your maid's cousin has spun some ridiculous story to her employers about the reason your maid absconded and they have decided to not get involved .... who knows !! Hopefully you can get justice, I would be beside myself with being taken for a ride like that. Even if she did leave willingly that does not mean she has not gotten herself into a dangerous situation. Some of these people come here from small villages and poor education and can be very naive about what they are getting themselves into. Precisely....hence the NEED for the cousin and her employers ( Ginnee's husbands' friend ) to STEP UP and take some form of action to get this situation sorted once and for all and then EVERYONE directly or indirectly can move forward and put this unfortunate saga to bed. SH

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 12:52

Sorry to hear this Ginnee, seems it can happen to all of us. For sure your friends maid knows what is going on, and I also say it is unlikely your maid is in a dangerous situation. Maybe your maid's cousin has spun some ridiculous story to her employers about the reason your maid absconded and they have decided to not get involved .... who knows !! Hopefully you can get justice, I would be beside myself with being taken for a ride like that. Even if she did leave willingly that does not mean she has not gotten herself into a dangerous situation. Some of these people come here from small villages and poor education and can be very naive about what they are getting themselves into.

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 11:59

Sorry to hear this Ginnee, seems it can happen to all of us. For sure your friends maid knows what is going on, and I also say it is unlikely your maid is in a dangerous situation. Maybe your maid's cousin has spun some ridiculous story to her employers about the reason your maid absconded and they have decided to not get involved .... who knows !! Hopefully you can get justice, I would be beside myself with being taken for a ride like that.

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 11:52

I don't think spineless cuts it......he is arrogant!!!!! His maid would be WALKING if she were in my house....PERIOD!!! What an injustice to his family and what about his loyalty to his friend ( YOUR HUSBAND )! Clearly he is only thinking of one person in this situation.......shame on him! SH

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 10:02

Ginee do whats is suggested in the article and move on. The maid is ok and this was all pre-planned. As for your husbands friend - I thought of you this morning I thought of your husbands friend as well - before I had read about him being afraid to confront his maid in case she does something to his child. My thoughts regarding him initially were compounded when I read the bit about how he's afraid. There's a term we use for people like him in Scotland but I won't say it here. Suffice to say just who is it that wears the trousers in his house - he's a man for gods sake and he's living in fear of the person he leaves his child with in case she does something! Dear God. The fact he can even think something like that regarding her shows life isnt rosy in his garden either. So just sit back and wait for his fall out and try not to laugh too much, or tell him you were warned. Oh and it won't be that something happens to his child. With so many spineless wonders going about as employers is it any surprise that people can be royally screwed by wee things who we're supposed to believe don't have an ounce of gumption about them.

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 09:47

the article posted says it all. I guess we can all write Fin to this thread??? And Happy New Year everyone!:)

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 09:41

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/just-in-case-your-maid-runs-away-1.177159 I can not read this page....:( Ginnee, I think you need to get your husband and his mate to read this!

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 09:24

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/just-in-case-your-maid-runs-away-1.177159 I can not read this page....:(

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 09:23

Guinee, I think it's time now to move on. If your DH doesn't want to speak to his friend, then send a mail to his wife. Do not include too much details, emphases on the fact you are worried for their child security as it seems to you that the cousin's knows where your maid is - as she is not worried, and that, as a mother, you wouldn't like your child to be near such a person. Whatever has happened to the maid, even if she did it forced (in the eventuality she's be threatened to loose her son), the cousin's doesn't help her cousin to go out of the situation by hiding informations she has. Tell her also that you want to inform her that you have reported your maid - and that you weren't s, sure that her DH understood what it means : as a legal process, the authorities have informed the police, and been informed that the cousin is the only known contact (so, please - dear friend - , do not be worried if the police comes to your place to see your maid one day). I still don't understand your DH. I would first think of the security of your friends' baby and I wouldn't let him keep going on with the cousin without a talk with him making sure the friend understand all the implications of letting his child taken care of the cousin.... For the 4000$....well, I'm sorry, but prepare yourself to put it in "lost and profit" and more precisely in "lost". It will take a while before you accept it, so the sooner you start, the best it is... And as per as the police, while they are very good ( I could had an other maid story here) , I doubt they will move themselves a lot for an abscond maid....so do not expect anything unless you directly go to them and report her(and even though...)

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 09:05

No news about her whereabouts yet Ginee?

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 08:52

Deleted because it was irrelevant. Like much of what I have to say :) <em>edited by Sanddy_Dogg on 02/01/2011</em>

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 08:51

I know this is slightly dated info. but am sure I have seen more recent info. supporting this view. Sounds like once the DNRD has been notified of the absconding maid they ask the police to issue an arrest warrant for the maid.....perhaps you can use this info. to lean on the cousin? Will seeif I can find the more recent article I read on the same topic. http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/just-in-case-your-maid-runs-away-1.177159

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 08:31

I believe that's right sandy dogg as she is still technically on their sponsorship as she is still here and has no exit pass stamp in her passport.

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 08:28

Further to Gorobattie's post, is it right that Ginnee won't be able to sponsor another maid (should she want to!) until this one is found, visa cancelled, left the country/transferred to someone else etc etc?

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 02:50

Maybe instead of going hard on the cousin, you can ask you DH best friend to check her cell phone while she is away or busy, check for regular text messages/calls she has been exchanging with someone, and try to translate it though google translator. My friend had a similar situation where her friend's maid kept denying knowing anything about their run-away maid, until they laid their hands on her phone and found she has been exchanging messages with her. But be very careful, in case the cousin finds out!

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 00:25

Gorobattie, I have to disagree, she may well NOT have chosen to go down this path. She may be an adult, but that doesn't mean to say she should be blamed necessarily for her actions and thought no more about... do you have children? I do and if someone threatened them I would walk smilingly, and willingly down a blind alley with a known axe murderer... who knows what this poor maid may have had to do. I know it's easy to assume that she has cheated Ginnee for her personal gains, due to so many 'nightmare maid' stories we hear, but until she is found and the true story comes out, I think everything should be done to find this girl. For example, is it 100% certain that the 'cousin' is in fact an actual relative and not like the 'aunties' (maid mafia) that some Sri Lankan maids have? Just because there was no reason to doubt it before, doesn't mean there isn't now... Just another thought...

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Latest post on 02 January 2011 - 00:08

Alright! I will be unpopular for my opinion, but can you forget about this Yani? You informed the authorities about her absconding, your friends knew what was their maid rule in her running away plan yet they still not interested in helping you. So they are already sitting out a very good example for their maid, and it's time for you G to move on, police will find her - sooner or later - and I don't think that Yani's choice will give her opportunity to work as a CEO of a company, she choose to go out to the darkness of illegal employment or to work as you know what, so she is doomed and she have no one to blame but herself, you are not her mother, and certainly she is not under age. Let go of her and look ahead to plan for your life/deal with what is going on with your life. you don't want to fill to those maid stories and crazy stories they will tell, just move on. I hope this give you an idea of what kind of people you had as (friends) and I hope your husband do the same, because I have the feeling that these friends will face what you are facing right now, but when time come, I hope your husband will give them the same treatment they gave you all. So sorry that you have to go through this horrible experience, and all the best for you and your husband finding terms with it. Hope 2011 bring better days and make you forget this bad days. Happy New Year.

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Latest post on 01 January 2011 - 23:55

well, how exactly will they react when the police come round to officially interrogate her? Because that's what they really should be doing, this "cousin" being the only lead. (sorry, the ad is blocking the edit) Also, not being funny, but if you were the "cousin's" employer... wouldn't you kind of want to clear your maid's name from a potential allegation of human trafficker? "oh yes, my maid may be facilitating women being pressed into prostitution, but apart from that, she's great with my kids!" as long as she doesn't "flip out".....

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Latest post on 01 January 2011 - 23:47

well, how exactly will they react when the police come round to officially interrogate her? Because that's what they really should be doing, this "cousin" being the only lead. (sorry, the ad is blocking the edit) Also, not being funny, but if you were the "cousin's" employer... wouldn't you kind of want to clear your maid's name from a potential allegation of human trafficker? "oh yes, my maid may be facilitating women being pressed into prostitution, but apart from that, she's great with my kids!"

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Latest post on 01 January 2011 - 22:46

If I were your friend I would seriously be considering terminating the cousin's employment soonest. Not so much out of guilt by association, but self protection. If he is too afraid to rock the boat by questioning her, where on earth is the level ot trust there? I find that really, really weird...and just a little bit scary. I would bet the farm that she will have a very, very good idea of what has happened to her cousin.......and if she genuinely doesn't, shouldn't she be falling over herself to help find her?

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Latest post on 01 January 2011 - 22:40

Your dh's friend would only have to suggest to his maid that she has to reimburse you some of the money you've lost and she would start talking or if she genuinely knew nothing, she'd use her contacts in the Indonesian community to try to locate her cousin. It's going to be easier for her to get info than you.

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