8 men gang-rape Pinay maid in Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) – Kuwaiti police are hunting for eight men for abducting and gang-raping a Filipina domestic helper at a desert camp, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Al-Seyassah quoted a security source as saying four of the men kidnapped two Filipina housemaids who had escaped from their employer’s house in Fahaheel district, 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Kuwait City.

They took them to a desert camp on Tuesday where they repeatedly raped one of them. The other was not "physically fit," the daily said.

They later invited four of their friends who also were reported to have raped the victim until she started to bleed severely. They then dumped the women in a remote area.

The raped maid was admitted to the intensive care unit of a local hospital.

Three Kuwaiti policemen were sentenced Sunday to between 10 and 15 years in prison for raping an 18-year-old housemaid from the Philippines at a police station last November.

More than 60,000 Filipinos live and work in the oil-rich Gulf Arab emirate, many of them as domestic servants.