Mum buried dead baby at Jumeirah beach

A Filipina cleaner was sentenced to two years in jail for burying on Dubai’s Jumeirah Beach her newborn baby who had died two days after birth due to lack of medical treatment.

JAJ, 30, was in a relationship with compatriot RB (fugitive). She gave birth to a premature baby girl that needed medical care but did not get as the mother was scared of dismissal from her job if her illicit relationship became known. She also claimed that she did not have money to provide medical treatment to the baby.

Chief of Family and Juvenile Prosecution Mohammed Ali Rustom had asked the court to award a stiff penalty for the accused.

The incident was revealed when DSB, 29, compatriot co-worker of the accused, told JAJ’s story to her friend MR, 30, Filipina, hall supervisor, who in turn notified the accommodation supervisor.

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

“In December 2012, JAJ told me that she got pregnant as a result of an illicit relationship with RB who stayed in Satwa and with whom she had stayed for four months. On March 1, JAJ told me that she gave birth herself without any assistance in her room.

“I went to her room and saw a naked premature baby girl whose body was stained with blood. I advised her to go to a hospital for medical treatment of the baby. On the same day, she left the accommodation to stay with her boyfriend. At 1pm on the following day, I got a call from her, telling me while weeping that the baby died after bleeding from the nose.  On March 7, she returned to the accommodation and told me that on March 2, she put the dead baby’s body in a box and buried it on Jumeirah open beach,” BSB testified.

Accommodation supervisor SAJ, 39, Emirati, testified that on March 10 when she learnt from a worker in the accommodation about JAJ giving birth to a baby a result of an illicit relationship, she took the cleaner to Latifa Hospital where it was confirmed 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  she took the baby to the hospital for medical care but as they did not have enough money they could not admit her,” testified the supervisor.

The accused told investigators that she took the baby to Zulekha Hospital where the doctor told that the baby’s medical treatment would cost Dh2,600. “As we did not have the money we took the baby back home,” JAJ said.

On the day after delivering the baby, the cleaner went to work, leaving the baby with her father. “I got a phone call from her father telling me that the baby is bleeding and seems to be dying. When I returned home she was dead. We put her body in a shoe box and buried it on Jumeira Open Beach in the evening,” she said.

On March 11, at around 11.20 am, a lifeguard on duty at the beach saw a box floating on the 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 the body of a baby girl on the beach. I picked the body and handed it to the police,” the lifeguard told policeman Mohammed Hussain.

JAJ identified the body of the baby girl as her daughter. She admitted to putting the baby’s body in a shoe box and burying it with her boyfriend at the open beach at 8pm on the same day the baby died.

Forensic reported that the accused is the dead baby’s biological mother who was tested negative for abortion medicine. It was also reported that the baby was born prematurely between 30 and 32 weeks of pregnancy. The cause of death was reported to be difficulty in breathing.  Autopsy of the body proved that the baby was not fed.

The mother was charged, along with her accomplice, of having a sexual relation outside marriage, subjecting the life of a baby to danger by not providing her medical treatment that caused her death and hiding the body of the baby by burying it without obtaining permission from the authorities.

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