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Driver denies molesting schoolboy

A driver accused of making a 13-year-old boy touch him during the trip home from school, has denied molestation charges. The case was heard at the Court of First Instance yesterday.

It emerged that the driver, a 37-year-old from Pakistan, was assigned to drive the boy from school to his home in Rafaa.

The boy, also from Pakistan, said in the investigation that he sat in the car’s front passenger seat as the back door was locked.

He said that the driver asked him about his first day at school and then allowed him to hold the driving wheel with his right hand.

The accused then took the boy’s left hand and made him touch him.As the boy took his hand away, the driver asked him to do it again. The boy, however, remained silent and confused.

As they got near the boy’s home, the driver asked the boy to click his photo with his mobile phone and offered to take him out on Friday without telling his mother. When he did not get an answer from the boy, the driver massaged his neck and shoulder and told him not to recount what had happened in the car to his mother.

The boy’s mother, a 37-year-old Indian teacher, told the prosecutor that her son was not looking fine when he reached home from school that day.

The boy, who was found talking to himself angrily, then told his mother about what the driver did to him.

And at that time the driver called her to make sure the boy had reached home but the infuriated mother told him about her son’s story. He then hung up on her and she reported the incident to the police. A policeman confirmed that the mother had filed a complaint in September.

When interrogated by the prosecutor, the defendant denied the charge alleging that he only put his hand on the boy’s thigh to keep him quiet.

mary@khaleejtimes.com