Judge Awards Housekeeper $1.2 Million For Mistreatment While Working In EG
It's unclear, however, if the woman – who worked for a Naval officer from the United Arab Emirates – will ever see the money.
A federal judge has awarded former EG housekeeper Elizabeth Ballesteros $1.2 million in a civil case where she accused her United Arab Emirates boss of forcing her to care for his five children and clean his East Greenwich house, the Associated Press reported Thursday. It's unclear if Ballesteros will ever see the money. UAE Navy Officer Arif Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Al-Ali and his family moved back to the UAE in 2011, after he was acquitted of criminal charges. Ballesteros, who comes from the Philippines, had worked for Al-Ali since 2007, according to an account of the criminal trial in July 2011 in the Providence Journal, but the time in question was a 12-week period she spent working for the family while they were staying in a rented …
