Flor Contemplacion
Filipina executed for murder (1953–1995)
Flor Ramos Contemplacion (7 January 1953 – 17 March 1995) was a Filipina domestic worker who was executed in Singapore after being convicted of murdering a fellow Filipina maid and the four-year-old boy whom she was babysitting. At the time, her case as well as her eventual sentencing severely strained diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Singapore.
Biography
Flor Contemplacion was born in San Pablo in Laguna province of Luzon, and was the second youngest of ten children. Her father died when she was 7 years old, and due to the increased financial pressure on her rural family she moved to Manila to live with an elder sister when she was 10 years old. Contemplacion dropped out of school aged 12 and soon after began working as a housemaid. Contemplacion got married in 1972 when she was 19 years old and eventually had four children. Her husband walked out on the family in 1987, leaving Contemplacion as the sole breadwinner.
In 1988, she travelled to Singapore in search of work to support her young family, eventually finding employment as a domestic servant in the Cardiff Road area of Serangoon. Contemplacion often worked seven days a week from 6am until midnight, doing household chores and looking after her employer's child.
Background to arrest
On 4 May 1991, Della M. Maga (born on 6 October 1955, in Tarlac), a 35-year-old Filipino migrant domestic worker, was found strangled to death in a five-bedroom apartment on the ninth floor of HDB Block 147 on Gangsa Road in Bukit Panjang.
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