Pilot gets 3 months for molesting 14-year-old girl

A 29-year-old pilot, JLW, from the Seychelles Islands, was sentenced to three months in jail after the court found him guilty of molesting a 14year-old girl in the lift of a building.

The victim, ANH, 14, American student, testified that on March 17, at around 11 am, she went to a building at Knowledge Village for her Arabic language lessons.

“A man entered the lift behind me. I pressed the 31st floor while he pressed the 21st floor. As the lift arrived at the 21st floor, the man did not get out the lift. As the door closed he came close to me and groped my face. I pushed him away put he repeated it several times. The lift arrived at the 31st floor, so both of us got out. I told my tutor what happened in the lift,” she testified.

The tutor informed the girl’s father AHH, 53, businessman, who rushed to the building and talked to the watchman and then informed the police.

First Sergeant Adel Saeed testified that the building’s watchman could identify the tenant from the camera recording of the lift.  The recording showed that the man did not get out of the lift at the 21st floor that he had pressed but rather stayed in and molested the girl who pushed him away several times until the lift reached the 31st floor.

Police arrested JLW and the girl recognised him when shown to her in an identification parade. JLW had denied the accusation when he first appeared before the court.  

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