Dubai
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A house maid on Sunday went on trial at the Dubai Court of First Instance after she was accused of sexually abusing her sponsor’s seven-year-old son by recording him naked with her mobile phone.
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According to official records, the boy’s father discovered the incident when he walked into a room at their Al Warqa home just when the 35-year-old Filipina maid was hitting the child with a broom stick.
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“It was around 11:30am when I heard my son yelling. I walked in and saw her hitting him,” the 32-year-old father from Comoros Islands said in records.
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She admitted in front of him to hitting the boy, following which he took her to Al Rashidiya police station when he also discovered the lewd clip on her phone.
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“She recorded a clip of my son being forced to say ‘I love you’. I was shocked and I don’t know why she recorded him naked and saved the video on her phone,” the father added.
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According to Dubai Public Prosecution, the maid admitted during their questioning that she had recorded the boy.
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She was charged with abusing the child by filming pornographic material and physically assaulting him.
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Prosecution asked for the toughest punishment to be handed out to the maid — 10 years in Jail – according to Article 37 of Federal Law No. 3 for 2016 (Wadeema Law).
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The maid, who is in police custody, denied the charges in the courtroom and the next hearing is on November 5.
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