I had more worse..and they were on my sponsorship... the stories about husbands,poor children in phill, bad sponsor, how they are poor and more... Shame!
I have many phillipino girls in my company, I adore them and they are my friends.. but SUCH people ( like your and my ex-maids) spoiling reputation of really good people.. the best is to take from trusted agency and on your visa..
One case from million... the same story like you have, bad bad local people beated poor girl and she ran away. She lived in one house, where was a baby.. after few weeks the lady noticed that she seems sick.. and she brought her to the hospital.. and the maid had typhoid fever ( i thik i spelled right in english) and her stage of the illness was very seroius..after this, also was discovered that the people who brought her to Qatar, discored this by the medical test and by rule, they wanted to send back. She lived with them just few days and then she was gone...
There are a lot of cases like this.. Be carefull who is coming to your house. The most sad in this, that housemaid knew about the fever and was quiet, and the small innocent baby could be affected...