We have chanced upon a story of a deceased Ghanaian maid who worked in
Lebanon. Before her sad demise, this lady identified as Faustina Tay sent a
final desperate message to an activist group she had contacted about the abuse
she was suffering at the hands of her Lebanese employers.
According to a report by Aljazeera,
the message reads; “God please help me.”
18 hours after she sent the message,
her body was discovered in a car park under her employers’ fourth-storey home
in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
A medical examination conducted on
her body revealed that her death was caused by a head injury “as a result of
falling from a high place and crashing into a solid surface”.
However, the doctor found “no marks
of physical assault” and a search from her employers’ home found no signs of a
struggle.
According to a police report, her
death was considered a suicide.
Before her death, she was working in
the house of one Hussein Dia, and when contacted he told Al Jazeera he and his
family had been sleeping when she died.
He disclosed that he did not know
what had driven the 23-year-old to take her own life, and denied he ever
physically assaulted her saying “I never laid a hand on her.”
A week before her untimely death,
Faustina Tay sent lots of texts and more than 40 minutes of voice messages to
Canada-based activist group, This Is Lebanon, and her brother in Ghana,
providing detailed accounts of recurrent physical abuse.
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In her messages to the group, she
indicated that Dia and Ali Kamal, the owner of the domestic worker’s agency
that had brought her to Lebanon, had each beaten her twice between January 16
and March 6.
Kamal had beaten her along with one
of his employees, Hussein, she said as she repeatedly expressed serious
concerns that speaking about her ordeal could lead to more abuse, and the
confiscation of her phone, which she said had taken place once before.
In a voice note to sent to the
activist group, she said;
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