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Yesterday's news reported that almost 5,000 of our overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are, for various reasons, in jail. While most of the detainees are in Middle Eastern countries, there are OFWs jailed in Japan, Hong Kong, Brunei, Singapore and other places.


We have known and visited many of our Filipino detainees in Japan but it came as a shock to us to be told that about 45 of our Filipino children, ages 17 or younger, are now in jail throughout Japan for serious crimes such as murder, burglary, and others. 


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We have known and visited many of our Filipino detainees in Japan but it came as a shock to us to be told that about 45 of our Filipino children, ages 17 or younger, are now in jail throughout Japan for serious crimes such as murder, burglary, and others. 


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Filipino children among the jailed abroad?

By Cherry Piquero Ballescas | October 27, 2005 - 12:00am

Yesterday's news reported that almost 5,000 of our overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are, for various reasons, in jail. While most of the detainees are in Middle Eastern countries, there are OFWs jailed in...

Freeman Opinion