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Man and woman jailed for human trafficking
DUBAI — A man and a woman, both Indians, were each sentenced to five years in prison on Sunday as they were found guilty of human trafficking.
The Court of First Instance ordered that the two, aged 56 and 37, be deported after serving their prison terms. The verdict remains subject to appeal within 15 days at the Court of Appeal.
The duo is believed to have forced four women, including 15 and 16-year-old Bangladeshi and Pakistani teens, into prostitution after luring them from their countries with maid job offers. They sexually exploited the women and held them up in their apartment in Muraqqabat.
The alleged victims, including two Indians aged 20 and 21, were received by the duo at the Sharjah International Airport.
From there they were taken to the duo’s place in Muraqqabat after being stripped off their passports and visa. Under pressure, they were force into having sex with men for money. They were told that they had to pay back their visas costs.
The police raided the defendants’ flat on June 19 last year and arrested them and freed the women held up against their will.
Some of the women had to work in prostitution for the two accused for five and seven months before the oldest of them could escape and seek help.
Six men sentenced
In a separate case, six Indian men were each sentenced to five years in prison on Sunday for involvement in selling a runaway maid for sexual exploitation.
The six, including a driver, two jobless, a cook, a visitor and a businessman, were ordered to be deported after completing their sentences. They have been on trial for human trafficking in the Court of First Instance. The court ordered that they be deported after completion of their prison terms.
They are accused of taking advantage of the Filipina maid’s economic and illegal conditions as a runaway to lure her into prostitution. The maid, 31, said she did not have her passport with her and did not have any other choice but to obey them to make her living.
She told the prosecutor that she had to run away from her sponsor’s house after she went out to the supermarket without his permission.
As she was walking down the street not far from her sponsor’s house in Oud Al Muttaina, the driver, one of the defendants, stopped for her. He offered to help her after knowing her problem.
He took her to his place where he had sex with her with her consent.
He and one of the jobless defendants sold her after few days to the cook and the businessman in Ras Al Khaimah for Dh2,000 to exploit her in prostitution. The latter then sold her for Dh5,000 to a buyer who turned out to be working for the police. An Emirati police corporal said in the investigation that the police knew that a Filipina woman would be sold for Dh5,000.
One of their informants posed as the buyer and the cook was arrested red-handed while collecting the money for selling the woman to the undercover police informant in a parking lot in Baraha.
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