By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga

The mother of a Negrense overseas Filipino worker (OFW), who was last based in Turkey, sought the assistance of local media yesterday, claiming her daughter has been missing since 2016.

Feliciana Prayle, a resident of the Purok Aton-aton relocation site in Barangay Mambagaton, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, said she last made contact with her daughter, Cheryl Prayle, in April 2016, where the latter admitted she no longer had a permanent job and had been  repeatedly transferring employers.

The younger Prayle first went to Lebanon in 2010 without assistance from any recruitment agency. However, the OFW was reportedly imprisoned for four years in the Middle East state for an unknown reason.

When she was freed in 2014, she returned to the Philippines and reunited with her now-separated husband and their two children in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan.

However, a month after returning home, the elder Prayle noted her daughter said she would be leaving for Turkey, but did not indicate a specific job or agency she was working with.

Prayle said she hopes the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration will provide assistance in finding her daughter

According to the mother, her daughter’s estranged husband is currently raising a different family in Cagayan./DGB, WDJ