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Grocery ‘uncle’ held for playing dirty
A 32-year-old grocer in Al Butaina area of Sharjah has been arrested for allegedly molesting children below 10 years in the neighbourhood for sometime.
His “dirty games” came to light when a six-year-old Arab boy spilled the beans to his mother. Though she had brushed away his earlier complaints thinking that he might have misunderstood, when her son broke into tears recounting what he underwent at the hands of the grocer, she verified it with a boy in the adjacent flat and called the police.
An Anjad patrol team reached the area and found two Arab women yelling at the grocer while a large number of people crowded around him. Many other parents also complained the suspect had done the same with their children too.
The mother of the six-year-old Arab boy said her son had told her several times about the grocer’s behaviour but she thought he was just talking.
She took the matter seriously when he came crying and told her the grocer did “bad things” to him. She informed her neighbour who told her that her nine-year-old son also had said something similar, but did not take it seriously.
Both women confronted the boys together about what had actually happened with the grocery keeper.
They said, “He did bad things to us all boys and girls who come to buy soft drinks, chocolates or other things” after giving them the stuff they needed for free.
The women went down to the grocery and confronted the suspect. They later called the police who arrested and detained him in Al Heera police station.
The police are interrogating the suspect. All child victims were quizzed professionally by policewomen, making sure that they were not psychologically affected.A top officer of the Sharjah Police has urged the parents to watch their children and not ignore their complaints of any sort.
Without the complaint of the six-year-old boy, no one would have known the bad practices of the grocer who had been well trusted by residents in the neighbourhood who would send their children to buy items, he reminded them.
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