The Philippines Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday that the domestic worker underwent emergency abdominal surgery after she was taken, unconscious, to a hospital in Saudi's southwestern Jizan city on April 2.
"We are working closely with authorities in Jizan to make sure that justice will be given to Agnes Mancilla," the statement read.
The victim is in "serious but stable condition" in hospital and Saudi police have detained her female employer, who has not been named, it noted.
The statement, citing Edgar Badajos, the Philippine consul in the Saudi city of Jeddah, said that Mancilla had worked in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
since 2016 "but was repeatedly physically abused by her lady employer" who had also failed to pay her salary.
The report is the latest incident of mistreatment of Filipino workers in the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf region.
In February, allegations of abuse of domestic workers caused a diplomatic row between the Philippines and Kuwait after President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at Kuwait, where the body of a murdered Filipino maid was found stuffed in a freezer.
Duterte claimed that Arab employers routinely raped their Filipino workers, forced them to work 21 hours a day, and fed them scraps.
Also in August 2016, a Philippine worker, who was allegedly raped by her Saudi employer, succumbed to her wounds while in a coma. Irma Avila Edloy died at King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....Hospital in the Saudi capital Riyadh due to severe injuries.