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Monday, August 18, 2003
Filipina raps Aussie husband
FED UP with living with her abusive Australian husband, a local woman finally complained against him before the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Negros Oriental.
"My marriage is full of sadness, oppression, threats, coercions, lies, deceits, indignities, mental torture, maltreatment and emotional pains," Delilah Samson-Olivier, a provincial government employee, said in her two-page complaint-affidavit to Jesus Canete, CHR investigator.
The complaint enumerated her grievances against her husband Joseph Donise Olivier, an Australian national and a resident of Isugan, Bacong, Negros Oriental.
"My husband is no longer the man that I married, a man who even claimed that he was a pastor by profession," she said adding that Olivier would spite her womanhood by shouting at her.
"You are nothing! You are crazy! You are rubbish!" the distraught wife quoted her husband as shouting to her at times.
In one instance, she said, Olivier fired a gun against their neighbors who were complaining against him, then hastily wiped his rifle, gave it to her and forced her to hold it so her fingerprints would stick on the rifle.
She said the incident was reported to the Bacong police.
The Filipina wife said Olivier has been harm to her and to the lives of Filipina housemaids.
She cited the case of her former 23 year-old house helper (name being withheld) who was allegedly raped by her husband for four times inside their house in Isugan.
Delilah stands as a witness in four counts of rape the helper has filed before the provincial prosecutor's office against her husband through the CHR.
She also charged her Australian husband of concubinage after knowing that her husband had a relationship with another woman she identified as Emma Cacayan, a former helper the couple hired last year.
Delilah said she saw her husband and Emma sleeping on the same cot aboard M/V Zamboanga Ferry last June 1.
"Taking my marriage vows seriously, I was willing to forgive my husband for all the terrible things he has done to our marriage and my person," stated Delilah in her complaints adding, "But I have finally decided to fight for my rights under the law." VLC
(August 16, 2003 issue)
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