No immunity for Baja in slavery case

[Judi Lynn]

Source: ABS-CBN News

No immunity for Baja in slavery case
abs-cbnNEWS.com | 06/17/2009 11:51 AM

A New York judge on Tuesday rejected a motion to dismiss a trafficking and modern slavery case filed against former Philippine Ambassador to the United Nations Lauro Baja.

Judge Victor Marrero of the New York Southern District Court rejected Baja's motion to dismiss the case on the basis of diplomatic immunity.

The case stems from charges filed by Filipino nurse Marichu Suarez Baoanan against Baja, his wife Norma, daughter Maria Elizabeth Baja Facundo and the Baja-owned Labaire International Travel Inc. last June 24, 2008.

In her complaint, Baoanan accused the Bajas of modern day slavery, saying that she was forced to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week in the Baja residence in New York.


Read more: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/06/17/09/no-immunity-baja-slavery-case

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13th Annual Chicago Filipino American Hall of Fame 2006's "Man of the Year" Mr. Nonoy Mendoza of Washington, D.C.
(right) shown with Philippine Government officials. From left: Ambassador Lauro Baja, Philippine Permanent
Representative to the United Nations; Mrs. Aida J. Mendoza of FILIPINO IMAGE Magzine and PINOY GLOBAL ONLINE
NEWS of Washington, D.C.; Philippine Consul General in Chicago Blesila C. Cabrera, Mrs. Norma Baja, International
Woman of Goodwill and wife of the Ambassador; and Mr. Nonoy Mendoza, President and CEO of both FILIPINO IMAGE
Magazine and PINOY GLOBAL ONLINE NEWS and Chicago Filipino American Hall of Fame 2006 "MAN OF THE YEAR."

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[winyanstaz]

1. Good, throw their asses in jail.