Manila buries maid who died in S'pore

Manila buries maid who died in S'pore

MANILA (Reuter): Hundreds of Filipinos gathered yesterday to
bury a Filipina maid who fell to her death from a Singapore
apartment building last month, and her mother rejected an
official finding that she might have committed suicide.

Angelina Palaming, who plunged to her death from her
employer's nine-story apartment block on Dec. 7, was buried in
the Tanay district cemetery.

Her five-year-old ward, who also fell, landed on her body and
survived.
"I cannot accept the finding that my daughter committed suicide,"
sobbing mother Soledad Palaming told reporters. "What will I do?
She is now gone!" she said, adding the government should demand
justice for her daughter.

Forensic experts from the Philippines and Singapore have both
said there was no evidence the maid was murdered or that she was
sexually abused.