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29 March 2024

Tutor molests teen at private institute

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By Eman Al Baik

A 45-year-old Palestinian tutor allegedly molested a student at a private educational institute on the first day of tuition, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

The 15-year-old victim, AAG, Emirati, testified that on May 19, she went with her mother to an educational institute in Hor Al Anz to take enhancement classes in mathematics and physics.

She took physics class with one of the teachers and finished at around 7.30pm. Then she went to the director and asked him  the location of  the mathematics classroom. The director went  upstairs with her and opened a room which looked like a meeting room and told a teacher who was in the room “here is your student” and  left.

“The mathematics teacher started flattering me by asking me my name. He made comments  like ‘You’re a princess’. Then he explained some issues related to the syllabus and examination. During all this time he was gazing at me and smiling. After that he gave me some math problems to solve and tried to touch my hand while I was trying to solve them. I got scared and pulled my hand back. He then held my arm but I pulled back and put it again on the table to write answers for the questions. All of a sudden, he touched my cheek with his hand and passed his finger on my lips. I again pulled back, then stood up and went out of the room. He rushed after me and kissed my lips. I pushed him away and he continued to explain the syllabus.

“Most of the time he was putting his hand on his private parts and making strange noises. At the end of the class he started saying: ‘I am sexually provoked… I am fond of women… Do you like sex?’”

The student told the teacher that he’s a bad person. The teacher went out of the room and came back quickly and kissed the girl again. “I rushed out of the room and dropped my calculator on the stairs. A teacher saw me and asked me to pick it up. I did and rushed to the car where my mother and younger sister were waiting. I was crying and my mom asked me about the reason. She thought it was because of the tough time I had in learning my subjects,” the girl testified.

“After reaching home I told my elder sister about the incident; my mom heard our talk and told my father who reported it to the police,” she testified.

She told the investigator that she never experienced such molestation and was shocked, confused and scared.

Her father, a 41-year-old sergeant in the Armed Forces, testified that when his wife told him about what she had heard from their daughter, he immediately called the police. He took his daughter to the institute and all the way she was covering her face with her hands and crying. “I did not ask her about the details but she told me that a teacher had kissed her while taking the math class,” he testified. “I was very angry and when I arrived at the institute it was closed.”

Police arrested the teacher and the victim recognised him during an identification parade.

The accused denied molesting the student and claimed that he had only got sexually excited when she touched his hand.  He also claimed that he did not want to reveal what she did because her father may hurt her if he knows. He claimed that she gave him her Facebook account to add her name.

The prosecution noted that the accused is married and his wife is overseas. He confessed leaving the room twice, confirming the testimony of the victim.

The victim asked interrogators to bring him in front of her to confront the charges. The accused confessed to touching the victim’s hand.

The court will reconvene on September 25.

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