A cleaner was convicted of sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl in the toilet of a restaurant in Jumeirah and was sentenced to one year in jail followed by deportation by the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance.

According to the records, the little girl had gone to the women’s toilet to check her wobbly tooth in the mirror. The child's Jordanian father, ZW, waited for the girl outside the door but went back to his table a little later.

When the child did not come out of the toilet after a few minutes, the father asked his wife to go and check on their daughter. The child then came out of the toilet with a pale face and quietly sat down next to her mother.

She told her mother that a man had entered the bathroom while she was inside, touched her private parts and sexually assaulted her. When the father heard this, he rushed to the bathroom and found the cleaner washing his hands inside. His daughter recognised the man as the one who had sexually assaulted her, the father testified in court.

The girl underwent a medical examination and the forensic report confirmed the presence of semen in the girl's private parts.