A PARTY-list lawmaker is urging local government units, the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration and the Department of Social Welfare and Development to actively monitor children left behind by OFW parents in the care of distant relatives, neighbors and friends to ensure these children are not subjected to physical or emotional abuse.
ACTS-OFW party-list Rep. Aniceto Bertiz made the appeal in light of the death of a two-year-old boy left behind by her OFW mother who works as a cashier in Bahrain in the care of guardians, Sarah Jane Alcain and husband, Ronilo.
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The husband used a belt to beat up the child after the boy urinated in his pants, reports said.
