Housemaid strangles her newborn baby; gets 5 years

An Ethiopian housemaid who got pregnant after an affair with a male compatriot waited till she was in labour and delivered herself before strangling her infant. She was sentenced to five years in prison by a Ras Al Khaimah court.

The unidentified maid had told court she did not mean to kill her baby but only tried to stop him from crying by blocking his mouth with her hand so her employers would not know about her delivery. She said she was also afraid of having an abortion after her Ethiopian boyfriend disappeared.

The maid’s employer discovered the murder and reported her to the police, who found the dead infant in her bedroom after she blocked his breath.

“The maid said she did not mean to kill her baby and only wanted to prevent him from crying so her employers would not know about the baby,” the semi official Arabic language daily Alittihad said, adding that the court also ordered the maid’s deportation from the UAE after serving her prison term

Saudi police seize child molester after chase

A nine-year-old Saudi girl went into a bookshop at a major shopping mall in the Gulf kingdom while her father waited for her at a nearby café.

When she was late, the worried father went into the bookshop and got the shock of his life— a Bangladeshi worker was caressing her.

“When the worker saw her father, he ran away, prompting the father to call the police,” the Arabic language daily Sharq said in a report from the western Red Sea port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s second largest city.

“After taking his descriptions from the father and his daughter, police began searching for the worker until they finally spotted him outside the mall…they chased him for a long time before catching him.”

Woman ends life a day after arriving in Saudi

A Saudi airport limousine driver was looking for a passenger when an African woman who just arrived in the Gulf kingdom approached him and asked for a lift.

On the way to Riyadh, she told him she was looking for a job and offered to work as a housemaid at his house. He did not mind and took her to his home.

“She woke up on the next morning and worked at the man’s house diligently all the day,” Kabar Arabic language daily said.

“In the evening, the man’s wife could not find the maid…when she tried to look in the bathroom, it was locked but she did not answer….they then smashed the door and found the maid hanging by a power cable around her neck.”

Police, who were called to the house, said the body had been sent to the coroner and that they were investigating the incident.

Fake prince arrested in Saudi

Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police arrested a local man who impersonated a prince from the Gulf kingdom to embezzle money from many women, mostly school teachers, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice seized the man following reports from several school teachers that he had fooled them to invest in a fake company he owns.

Commission members, recruiting one of his victims, caught the unnamed man while meeting that woman at a restaurant in Riyadh.
“When she gave him money, they were on him…he later confessed to have impersonating a prince and that he collected more than SR125,000 ($33,000) from his victims,” the Arabic language daily Sabq said.

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