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Court puts student on judicial probation

DUBAI — The Court of First Instance ordered that a juvenile (student) be on judicial probation as he has been on trial on the charges of kidnapping a teenager and molesting her. The student is also accused of not reporting about a crime.

According to the court records, the 20-year-old Emirati student had an accomplice who had died before the beginning of the trial (for reasons not mentioned in the charge sheet).

According to the arraignment sheet of the Public Prosecution, the two students lured the 17-year-old teenager into their car and drove her to the house of the defendant where he molested her. The teenager told the investigating prosecutor that the deceased lured her to meet them offering to erase her photos from his mobile phone.

She said that she agreed to meet the duo near a library on March 10. But they forced her into their car.

A 20-year-old Emirati man said during the investigation that he met the girl in the Festival City and she told him that two men had kidnapped her and they were watching her. A forensic expert who examined the teenager said that she found traces of semen on her dress. The Criminal Lab report indicated that the DNA of the semen matched with the defendant’s.— mary@khaleejtimes.com

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