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29 March 2024

Mother who buried her baby in the dock

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By Eman Al Baik

A Filipina cleaner allegedly had a relationship with a compatriot that resulted in the birth to a premature baby girl who died two days after the birth due to lack of medical care.

JAJ, 30, and her complicit RB, (fugitive), have also been accused of hiding their daughter’s body by burying it at Jumeriah Beach open area without obtaining a permission from the relevant authorities.

Chief Family and Juvenile Prosecutor Mohammed Ali Rustom asked court to award stiff penalty to the accused.

DSB, 29, compatriot co-worker of the accused, told her friend MR, 30, Filipina hall supervisor, the story of JAJ and the later in turn notified the accommodation supervisor.

DSB testified that JAJ had given birth to a premature baby girl in her room and the baby needed medical care.

“In December 2012, the accused had told me that she is pregnant from an illicit relationship with RB who stays in Satwa and with whom she had stayed for four months. On March 1, 2013, JAJ told me that she gave birth herself and without any assistant in her room after taking medicine that helped ease giving birth. I went to her room and saw a premature baby girl whose body was sustained with blood. I advised her to approach a hospital and offer the baby the necessary medical treatment and care. On the same day she left the accommodation to stay with her boyfriend. At 1pm on the following day, I received a call from her and telling me while crying that the baby died following nasal bleeding. On March 7, she returned to the accommodation and told me that on March 2, she put the body in a box and buried it at Jumeirah open beach,” BSB testified.

The accommodation supervisor SAJ, 39, Emirati, testified that on March 10 she learnt from a worker in the accommodation about JAJ giving birth to a baby as a result of an illicit relationship. She took the cleaner to Latifa Hospital where it was confirmed that she had given birth ten days ago.

“The cleaner admitted to giving birth to a baby girl on March 1 and that she left the accommodation with the baby and stayed with her boyfriend. She said that she took the baby to the hospital for medical care but as they do not have enough money they could not admit her,” testified the supervisor

The accused told investigators that she took the baby to another private hospital where the doctor told that the baby needed medical care and will cost Dh2,600.

“As we did not have money we took the baby back home,” said the accused.

On the following day of birth, the cleaner went to work and left the baby with her father.

“I received a phone call from her father telling me that the baby is bleeding and seems dying. As I returned home she was dead. We put her body in a shoe box and buried it at Jumeirah open beach in the evening,” she confessed.

On March 11, at around 11.20am a lifeguard on duty at the beach saw a box floating on waves with a pink piece of cloth hanging out of it.

“I tried to pick the box but could not as waves pushed it away from the beach. Later I saw a body of a baby girl thrown to the beach. He picked the body and handed it to the police,” the lifeguard told policeman Mohammed Hussain.

The accused identified that the body of the baby girl was her daughter. “She admitted to putting it in a shoes box and burying it with her boyfriend at the open beach at 8pm the same day she died.

Forensic reported that the accused is the dead baby’s biological mother who was tested negative to abortion medicine.

It was also reported that the baby was born immature when was between 30-and 32 weeks of pregnancy. The cause of death was reported difficulties in breathing. Autopsy of the body proved that she was not fed.

The mother and the father are facing three accusations – illicit relationship, subjecting the life of the baby girl to danger because of not providing her medical treatment that caused her death, and hiding the body of the girl by burying her without obtaining the necessary permission from the concerned authorities.

The Court will issue its sentence on April 25.

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