“Mina” would certainly welcome a tip on top of the P500 she charges per hour as a massage therapist.
But not if it would include dancing nude in front of a customer.
The 23-year-old woman said this was what a Saudi Arabian guest at a five-star hotel in Makati City tried to make her do, according to a complaint she filed in the police headquarters Friday.
In the complaint received by Police Officer 2 Ronaldo Villaranda, Mina said Alo Taibi “Ahmad” Jubilan punched her and also threatened to hurt her with a bread knife and fork when she refused to strip and dance for him inside his hotel room.
In an Inquirer interview, Mina, who works at Gold Massage spa also in Makati, said it was her third time to be hired by Ahmad, who never made such indecent demands during the first two sessions. He even generously paid her P3,000 for the second session.
But when the foreigner called for her and another therapist from Gold Message to serve him and a friend staying in another room around midnight Friday, Ahmad was drunk. She found him drinking scotch whiskey when she entered his room.
In the middle of the massage, she said, Ahmad first asked her to have a drink as well. She obliged and took “two shots” of the Chivas Regal.
It was at this point that Ahmad asked her to undress and dance. Thinking of an excuse to leave the room, she pretended to vomit because of the liquor and rushed to the bathroom, where she called her co-worker on her cell phone for help.
When she emerged from the bathroom, a more aggressive Ahmad repeated his demand and started assaulting her when she resisted.
The beatings only stopped when hotel staff members, who heard her screams, came knocking at the door.
According to Mina, Ahmad tried to hand her P6,000 after the incident, which she refused to accept. Ahmad instead gave P1,000 to a hotel employee to help “escort” her out of the premises.
Mina said she went to Ospital ng Makati for her injuries before going to the police.
Reached by the Philippine Daily Inquirer on the phone Friday afternoon, Villaranda said Ahmad had “apologized” to Mina and that the woman had decided not to press charges after receiving an unspecified amount as part of an amicable settlement.