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The mother who won the custody of the children, aged between two and 10 years, from her ex-husband has allegedly stayed away from the house because she has to repay loans amounting to Dh800,000.
From time to time, she visited the house secretly but would order the maids to lock up the children so that they would not see her. And she has not seen her youngest daughter, who is now two years, since she was nine months.
The police’s Women and Child Protection Section of the Human Rights Department are following up their case.
Major Ishag Mohammed, Head of the Women and Child Protection Section, said the woman gave unsatisfactory reasons like facing financial problems for not living with the children or taking care of them.
The case came to light when a woman relative of the mother informed the Women and Child Protection Section about the children’s plight. The relative found that out when she visited the house since she had not heard from the children’s mother for a long time. On reaching the house, she learnt that the mother had been absent for long and had left the children with the two maids. She informed the police because she was afraid the children were too small to stay alone with the maids who could not anyway replace a mother.
A team from the Women and Child Protection Section visited the house and found out that mother got the custody of the children after her husband divorced her in 2009 following disputes over her working in different shifts and not taking care of the children.
The mother took away all her belongings and had not seen the children for long periods of time. She would visit the house at night to take a few things and the last time she visited the house was on March 15.
The maids confirmed to the police that the woman had not been staying or taking care of the children. Major Ishag said the children missed their mother. The youngest child clung on to a policewoman tightly thinking that she was her mother.
Major Ishaq said the father has been paying the children’s expenses and visiting them time to time because he has married another woman and is staying in a distant place.
Only two children are attending school although two more should have been enrolled in a school.
Their father said his first wife insisted that she would take the custody of the children and they signed an agreement in the court which ordered him to pay the expenses. He said he has filed a lawsuit demanding their custody after he felt the children were being neglected.
Major Ishag said the mother had been indifferent and did not respond to the police team’s calls repeatedly. She told the police that she was forced to leave the children because she was scared that the police would arrest her anytime since she had accumulated loans up to Dh800,000, including a bank loan of Dh750,000, which was taken to buy a car and for her own expenses.
He said the Human Rights Department has addressed the court to give temporary custody of the children to the father till the case is finally settled. Besides, the stepmother has said she is ready to take care of them. The department has asked the father to take care of them till the court issues its decision.
It has also referred the matter to the Family Prosecution.
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