Man rapes housemaid after taking her from agent in UAE

Abu Dhabi - The man said he had paid Dh10,000 to the maid for not reporting the matter to the police.

An Arab man, who was convicted of raping an Asian housemaid after assaulting her, has been jailed for three years.
The Federal Supreme Count in Abu Dhabi upheld an earlier ruling by the Appeals Court which handed the sentence to the man after he was found guilty of rape and beating up the woman.
Official court documents stated that the Arab defendant, who posed as an employer, took the maid with him from a recruitment firm in a northern emirate. Instead of taking the maid to his house for work, the man drove her to a remote area near the sea.
The woman told the prosecutors that the man pulled over near the sea and coerced her to have sex with him.
"When I refused, the man kicked and slapped me hard," she earlier told the court.
"He then raped me several times. I screamed for help and also begged him to spare me but in vain."
The maid said the man later drove her back to the recruitment firm. Her agent informed the police after the woman narrated to him the entire incident.
Prosecutors charged the man with raping the woman and assaulting her.
The man denied the charges claiming that the woman had agreed to having sex with him.
He admitted he went to the recruitment firm to get a woman with whom he could have consensual sex. Both the maid and the recruitment agent had agreed to it, he added. The man said he had paid Dh10,000 to the maid for not reporting the matter to the police.
The Criminal Court of First Instance had earlier sentenced the man to five years in jail, which was reduced to three years on appeal.
The man went to UAE's top court which rejected his appeal and upheld earlier verdicts by lower courts, based on the evidence presented by prosecutors.

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