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29 March 2024

Boy raised by Emirati family for 15 years after his jailed parents never came back

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In most movies, mothers are seen fighting to stick to their children and in most cases they win. But what happened to an Arab boy in real life in Ras Al Khaimah shattered that pattern as the mother is now fighting to disown her son.

The boy was only 15-days old when his parents were jailed for one month over personal offences, prompting authorities to keep the baby at a charity group in Dubai pending their release, but they never turned up again.

An Emirati man then went to that group and adopted the boy, who was raised at his house in Ras Al Khaimah and is now nearly 15-years-old.

The man said he had treated the boy like one of his sons and it all went right until the boy grew up and went to school.

“After spending some years at government schools, they decided to reject him as he had no official ID documents except his birthday certificate.

“I then moved him to a private school and paid nearly Dh6,000 a year, but a few years later, private schools also rejected him in line with regulations by the Ministry of Education,” the man said, quoted by the Dubai-based Emarat Al Youm Arabic language daily.

“When he was a child, I learned that his father left the country while his mother remained in the UAE with her brother. After he left school, the boy started to ask who he was and why the schools did not want him.

“I am much worried about him now as he feels bored without school and keeps staying out till late night. Besides, he is now nearly 15 years and it is against Islam that he stays with my family.”

The man said he had asked the boy’s mother to take him or at least have ID papers issued for him but that she refused.

“It seems that she is under pressure by her elder brother.

“This has prompted me to turn to the personal affairs could to force her to recognise her son and get the proper papers for him, the court has contacted the embassy of the mother’s country to help in having ID documents issued for this boy.”

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