Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) should know what they are getting into and know their options in case something happens like that of Agnes Tenorio. As for embassies and labor attaches, they should have the decency of providing complete information on the options an OFW has on any given situation!
What Romulo Salud failed to do:
- Clarify from Tenorio the events and who she had consulted.
- Provide Tenorio a list of options she can take action for.
- Advice Tenorio from his best points of view steps she should take.
- Give her the time to think things over and decide.
What Agnes Tenorio should have done:
- Made sure she knows how to get in touch with her agency or representative within Hongkong.
- Consulted her case first before deciding outright.
- Inquire from Salud the best she could do at that time (not like a child crying and just wants to go home, then, decides to stay when she finds out there were 'playmates' around)
- Inquire from Salud if they could get in touch with the agency that got her to HK.
The action of Tenorio of recording the conversation with Salud had ill intentions. From her published accounts on their first meeting it seemed everything went well. No reason for her to be suspicious on how things will go on her second meeting with Salud!
In conclusion, both Tenorio and Salud did not do things in the proper perspective. They are both equally to share the blame of what happened. It just so happened that Agnes Tenorio is a household help and Romulo Salud a Labor Attache. In 'David-and-Goliath' like scenarios, it is always David who comes out the good.
This could be happening in many countries around the world. There are ex-wives who are not able to find another partner in life after the first one. A good number find themselves creating or leading some organization or club for obvious reasons. Their members or prospective members are a few "ex-s" like them but most of the other members are still good with a partner or husband. The ex-wives who are not able to find another partner try to prove to their members that they did right. Thus, they influence those still with partners to be like them. The ex-wives 'snatch' their members time from their families. They orient them to be like them, a "happy" ex-wife, destroying other families that have stuck together through thick and thin.
