Man molests sisters in Dubai tower lobby after they ask for juice

Dubai - The two shocked victims rushed to their flat to tell their mother.

A worker was sentenced to three months in jail by a Dubai court on Monday for molesting two underage sisters in the lobby of a residential tower.
Public prosecution records show the 20-year-old Pakistani man inappropriately touched the two girls, who are both under 14, after spotting them alone on August 5.
He denied two counts of molestation when he was brought before the Court of First Instance.
He will be deported after completing his jail term.
The incident was then reported to Al Barsha police station.
One of the victims told the prosecution investigators that at 1.30am on the incident day, she went with her younger sister down the building to get a packet of juice from the vending machine.
"We did not have a coin and asked a man - the accused - to give us one."
She said the man refused to give them the juice packet, but touched them in a "bad way" instead. "I screamed at him as we stepped back. My sister and I rushed to the lift. We felt scared as he followed us and we then told the watchman."
The two shocked victims rushed to their flat to tell their mother about the defendant's behaviour.
The girls' father said his wife woke him up at a late hour.
"When I heard from her about what happened, I went down. The security guard told me that the suspect got inside the building to visit someone. I heard from the guard that the suspect sexually harassed my daughters."
The father told the prosecutor that the CCTV camera captured the suspect as he groped his elder daughter.
A police corporal said they went to the tower after receiving the complaint.
The police officers checked the surveillance cameras and talked to the father.
"The footage was consistent with the older girl's account of what happened," the officer said. The worker has the right to appeal the ruling in 15 days.
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