10 October 1999, The Island, a Sri Lankan daily, reported that domestic workers, upon returning home after their stint of work in foreign countries, are being systematically preyed on by gangs operating in collaboration with the Airport Taxi Service. The Island reported on police raiding a private guest house in the Dambulla Police Area which led to the rescue of 4 women from being sexually assaulted by the 6 men. One of the women had already been raped by 2 of the men. The women had paid Ps.40,000 to the taxi service to take them to their homes. But soon after leaving the BIA they were handed over by the taxi drivers to these 6 men.
Reports indicate that the police are aware of the gangs operational methods.
The women who have to travel to their homes in outlying districts outside Colombo are told that it would be unsafe to travel on at night. The gang then brings them to a guest house. The same men may later force their way into the rooms and abuse the women. Women had also been forced to pose in the nude and photographed. But this particular case has broader implications which exacerbate the graveness of the injustice done to women overseas domestic workers.