Mary Anne Daynolo, the 30-year-old overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who had been reported missing from her workplace in Abu Dhabi since March 4, 2020 was found dead, the victim’s family told the Manila Bulletin on Sunday.
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Daynolo’s remains were finally repatriated yesterday, January 30, 2021, several days after a suspect reportedly admitted killing her on the same day that she went missing at the St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort in Abu Dhabi where she worked as a receptionist.
After interrogation by the UAE police, the suspect reportedly led the authorities to an area within the vicinity of the hotel where the remains of the OFW was exhumed.
“We’ve heard about this development since last week but it was only yesterday that we were able to confirm it (Last week pa namin nalaman, kahapon lang na-confirm,” one of Daynolo’s close relatives said in a text message.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is said to be conducting an autopsy on the victim’s remains.
Mary Anne was last seen at around 10:30 pm on March 4 at the hotel confines. One of her siblings who also work in the UAE reported the matter to the local police and the Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
Due to the slow progress of the search, the family even launched an online campaign to seek the public’s help in finding their missing kin.
Mary Anne left Manila for Abu Dhabi in February 2018 and was supposed to return to the Philippines in July 2020 to spend her first vacation after more than two years of working in the Emirates.
On December 11, 2020, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. directed the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to do everything it can to find Daynolo, even if it entails sacrificing “all diplomacy.”
“We find her whatever it takes. I don’t give a s___ what it takes; find her; rescue her, and I don’t give a s____ what it does to our foreign relations,” Locsin said in a tweet. “That’s a little girl for which we can sacrifice all diplomacy.”