Having endured his relentless sexual harassment, she protected herself against attempted rape by stabbing him to death. On July 19 th, 1994, Sarah Balabagan, a fourteen-year-old overseas Filipina domestic worker in the United Arab Emirates, killed her employer, a sixty-seven-year-old widower, in self-defense.
The quietest, most docile worker could, behind her apron or her uniform, be sharpening a blade.
