A lot of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) seek help from Raffy Tulfo because he has the capability of quickly helping out and bringing back home distressed OFWs whose family or friends sought help from his program.
But recently, a number of netizens believe the show was merely used by an OFW who wanted to escape the legal consequences of getting pregnant out of wedlock while working in Kuwait. After all, this carries stiff penalties in the Middle East.
Photo credit: Raffy Tulfo in Action / OFW
On the show, Tulfo shared that an OFW had asked them for help after her employer had allegedly taken advantage of her on two separate occasions. Jenny, not her real name, claimed that the incidents happened when her female employer was out of the house.
Photo credit: Raffy Tulfo in Action / OFW
Knowing this is a serious situation, Tulfo immediately sought the help of Jenny’s agency as well as then deputy administrator of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), Arnell Ignacio.
Thanks to Tulfo’s help, the OFW was immediately rescued from her employer’s house.
Photo credit: Raffy Tulfo in Action / OFW
But when she arrived in the Philippines, Tulfo staff learned that the OFW is pregnant – not with her employer’s baby but with that of her Pinoy boyfriend who left her after learning she was pregnant.
Photo credit: Raffy Tulfo in Action / OFW
The Pinoy boyfriend also works in Kuwait but is married; thus, the OFW was certainly he could never marry her and make their union legal. This led to many netizens, even Tulfo, thinking that the OFW had only used the program to escape what she might have to undergo if her employers learned she was pregnant and she didn’t have a husband.
Photo credit: Raffy Tulfo in Action / OFW
Yet Jenny insisted that though her boyfriend of 3 years was the one who got her pregnant, her employer had taken advantage of her twice.
Photo credit: Raffy Tulfo in Action / OFW
Whether he believed her or not isn’t sure, but Tulfo gave the pregnant OFW some money, asked his staff to bring her to the clinic for check-up, and even bought her plane tickets for Zamboanga.
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