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19 March 2024

Maid impregnated by 13-year-old Bahraini jailed

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A Bahraini court sentenced an Indonesian housemaid to one year in prison after she was convicted of having a relationship with her employer’s 13-year-old son, resulting in her pregnancy and delivery of a baby boy.

Both the defence lawyer and the boy’s solicitor decided to appeal the sentence just after it was issued by the court in the Bahraini capital Manama.

The defence said the 34-year-old maid did not know the boy’s age and that he had told a doctor he had an affair with the maid at his own will.

His lawyer said she was appealing for a tougher sentence on the grounds the maid seduced a child, taking advantage of his parents’ absence from home.

Newspapers earlier said the maid had first claimed the boy raped her, but changed her statements after she was pressed by police investigators.

The boy’s lawyer said the maid had managed to hide her pregnancy from her employers for several months before she was about to board a flight for her home country.
“But she went into premature labour before her travel. She delivered in the bathroom at her employer’s home,” she said.

“She had first claimed she was raped by the boy, who is considered a child, but it emerged later that she had a relationship with him.”