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Two get 6-month jail for molesting teen student
Two jobless men, including a 23-year-old stateless and a 19-year-old Yemeni, were each sentenced to six months in jail on Thursday for molesting a 17-year-old student.
The Court of First Instance also fined each of them Dh2,000 for consuming alcohol.
Both will be deported after serving their jail terms.
According to the prosecution records, the incident happened in October last year in Al Qusais when the two defendants intercepted the student who was walking home.
The student said during investigation that he saw the duo accompanied by about four others but he ignored them and kept going. When he was about to reach home, he was taken by surprise as one of them pushed him from behind. As he fell down, they beat him up and carried him in their car’s trunk.
They took him to the Yemeni defendant’s house where they carried him to a room on an upper floor. There, they assaulted him again and forced him to drink liquor until he passed out.
When he woke up about three hours later, he found himself naked. The assailants were on the ground floor.
Later, the stateless defendant molested him and then they carried him to the bathroom. He freshened up and he ran away from the house naked. He told his father about the incident and the latter lodged a police complaint.
An Emirati police lieutenant said they found a video on the mobile phone of the stateless man showing them assaulting the teen. When confronted with the video, the stateless man admitted that he had assaulted the student with his hand and that he had consumed liquor.
The forensic medicine report showed scratches and marks of assault on the student and that he was dragged on the floor.
The duo admitted during interrogation that they had molested and assaulted the student. In the video, a naked teen was seen being slapped and punched in the face.
The verdict is subject to appeal within 15 days at the Court of Appeal.— mary@khaleejtimes.com
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