threat

i've just posted this message in the helper area, but wanted to see if there are any legal issues i need to consider here! thanks


we have two helpers, very long term boyfriend/girlfriend (>10 years). however, it seems that our helpers ex wife is upset that they are now living together. we had numerous phone calls to our home number at all times of the day and night (until we changed our number), including calls from people claiming to be from bogus govt depts asking lots of questions about them and us (these calls were from the ex wife and other random men). the thing that finally made us change our number was she spoke to our female helper and threatened to kidnap our kids.


we don't want to fire our helpers as we like them, but feel that we must report the threat to the police. for a start, we worry about the kind of message it sends out that someone can make such a serious threat and we take no action on it.


i am worried though that this may cause problems for them in the philippines or locally. i'm also concerened that i don't necessarily understand the cultural issues (we haven't been here that long).


does anyone have any advice re the implications of this?


thanks!