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Mother rethinks reporting daughter to police

A UAE resident has had regrets about turning her daughter and sister in to police, after catching the two teenagers with male partners at her house.

Family and Juvenile Prosecution chief prosecutor Mohammed Rustom Bu Abdullah said his unit had been investigating a complaint made by an Arab housewife, who called the police on her daughter and her own sister, after catching them both making out with two young men at her house one night.

In a state of fury, the mother reported her 14-year-old daughter and her sister, aged 16, and their partners, also juvenile Arabs, to police. But the mother has since had second thoughts about having her daughter and sister go through the legal procedures and the consequences in the long run.

“We are examining the case to assess the circumstances and how serious was the immoral doing on the part of the four. We will take action on whether to refer the case to court or close it after assessing whether referring them would fix the problem rather than further complicating it,” Bu Abdullah pointed out.

If they were to stand trial, the daughter and her aunt would face a consensual sex charge while the two male intruders would face consensual sex and trespassing into others’ property charges.

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