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Filipina Caregiver Killed in Missisauga
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PRESS RELEASE
Migrante-Ontario
October 4, 2007
Jocelyn Dulnuan: Twice a Victim
TORONTO -- Jocelyn Dulnuan, a Filipina housekeeper of a multi-million dollar mansion in Mississauga, was murdered on Tuesday October 2nd.
Her sister in law Regina Kinnud said that “the police came to our door and started asking questions about Jocelyn. When we asked why, they said that she was dead”. Shocked by the news, Regina said that Jocelyn was “quiet and happy person”.
Jocelyn came to Canada under the Live-In Caregiver Program (LCP), a federal government program that allows Filipinas to come as nannies, housekeepers and caregivers. In this program, she was required to live in her employer’s residence.
“That is the inherent problem in the LCP program” said Sol Pajadura, coordinator of Migrante-Ontario, an advocacy group that supports caregivers and other migrant Filipinos in Ontario. “Under these conditions, live-in caregivers are vulnerable to exploitation, abuse and to something like what happened to Jocelyn,” she added.
Regina and the agency that found Jocelyn the current job went to the Philippine consulate to ask for help. A consular official said that they do not have the money and resources to repatriate Jocelyn’s remains. Besides, the official also said they could not help bring home Dulnuan’s remains because she was an unregistered worker.
“We cannot really expect much from them. Jocelyn was also directly hired by an employer and did not go though an agency, so there is no agency that can help repatriate her remains either. But the Philippine consulate, no matter what, should be looking after its own nationals, especially those that it boasts of as “modern-day heroes,” said Ms. Pajadura.
This same view was expressed by an Ifugao email sender who said “Her citizenship and the circumstances (behind) her death, not her status, should be considered by the Philippine Consulate.”
Jocelyn came from an indigenous farming community in Ifugao province north of Manila. She went to Hong Kong with her mother to work as a domestic worker. After working there for a year she came to Canada hoping to be able to work and sponsor her husband and 4 year-old daughter to join her. That will never happen anymore.
“It’s really sad to hear what happened to Jocelyn. Like me and many others she left the Philippines to get a better job,” said Michelle Gose, a member of migrant organization Siklab. “Not only did she suffer a violent death, she was also a casualty of our government’s program that pushes us out of the country to work and be separated from our families,” Michelle added.
Along with Ms. Pajadura, Michelle and other migrant workers’ groups and concerned community organizations have started collecting all the information that they can get to provide news to Jocelyn’s mother in Hong Kong and to ensure that body will be brought back to their hometown.
Spearheaded by Migrante-Ontario, a Jocelyn Dulnuan Support Committee will be formed to provide assistance to the repatriation of the Jocelyn’s remains and to support the family. Some people in the committee are also looking into the possibility of opening up a trust fund on her behalf.
FOR REFERENCE: Maria Sol Pajadura. Cell: 647-448-7030. Email: siklab_ontario@yahoo.ca
FOR DONATIONS: Please contact Fay at fayduludulh@yahoo.ca
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Posted at 12:18PM, 7 October 2007 PDT
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you would think that her employer would help her family out to bring her home. a very sad story.
Posted 57 months ago.
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I'm sorry to hear about about her death. What were the details regarding the murder?
Posted 57 months ago.
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Here's the latest from the Star:
www.thestar.com/article/264411
Oct 07, 2007 04:30 AM
Robyn Doolittle
Staff Reporter
A coalition of community groups and Jocelyn Dulnuan's friends are calling for the Philippine consulate in Toronto to help take the body of the slain Mississauga nanny back to her family in the Philippines.
"We strongly demand that the Philippine Consulate muster all the necessary resources to bring Jocelyn's remains back home. The consulate has the responsibility to look after the rights and welfare of its nationals, especially its overseas workers, who send billions of dollars to their home country a year," Sol Pajadura said at a fundraising event in Vaughan last night.
Dulnuan was found dead in her basement living quarters in a Mississauga mansion last Monday. She moved to Canada last November, leaving behind a 3-year-old and fiancé, to help support her struggling family. Police have still not released any details on how she died or possible suspects.
According to Filipino news reports, the Department of Foreign Affairs in the Philippines has instructed its consulate in Toronto to extend full assistance to the family to take Dulnuan's body home.
"But still, we have heard nothing from them," Pajadura said. "The Philippine consulate continues to drag its feet in exercising its responsibility for bringing Jocelyn's remains back to her hometown even as the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs has already issued instructions to provide full assistance."
A trust fund called the Jocelyn Dulnuan Fund will be available at TD Bank on Thursday. Until then, Fay Hangdaan, Dulnuan's fiancé's cousin, is accepting donations at fayduludulh@yahoo.ca.
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Wow, you think her employer would be nice enough to help foot some of that bill.. it's not like they're hurting for any money.
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to think about it her employer has a mansion very rich and both have a decent job if i have that kind of money or even have 1/4 of their money even i do not know Jocelyn I will personally bring her body to her, family back home. I can not imagine how her mother and daughter feel now that she is gone they still longing for them to say a proper goodbye. Jocelyn i have nothing much to help you but my deepest prayer is for you i hope you can rest in peace and be home soon. whina
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her employers are very rich. if they are really nice people, with thier money, they can bring jocelyn's body home. too sad, that this tragedy happend. lots of filipinas struggled and working hard to support their family back home.it is very hard to be seperated from your love ones. Jocelyn, God loves you, there are reasons why this happened. God will take you with Him in his kingdom. My deepest prayer and hope you can rest in peace.
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I am a Private Investigator in Toronto and my partner is in the Philippines. We will get involved in solving this case at the request of her family at a minimal fee from a few local Ontario donators.
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I agree, have these employers no compassion? Do they just want to brush this incident under the carpet. For what happened to her, her
family has no income, they should foot the bill and help assist her
husband and daugter in the futer.
What is wrong with her employers?
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