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28 March 2024

Worker gropes girl, 9, at her home

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By Eman Al Baik

A Bangladeshi carpenter allegedly groped a 9-year-old girl who was playing in the garden of her home, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

On April 7 at around 11.30am, GM, 43, Jordanian housewife, went shopping to a supermarket near her residence at Rashid Hospital camp. Her daughter, DT, came out to play in the garden while two Asians who were hired were painting the villa’s gate.

“One of the workers approached me and started taking to me... then he held my hand, hugged me and molested me. He also groped my private parts and then tried to drag me to the backside of the house. I shouted at him, resisted him, released myself from his grip and rushed into the house,” testified the victim.

The little girl called her mother and told her what had happened to her. The mother rushed to the house and the little girl pointed at the worker who groped her. The mother took her daughter and went back into the house and lodged a complaint with the police which arrested the accused, JS, 31.

The little girl instantly recognised her assaulter when shown to her via identification parade.

The girl’s father, 45, TA, Jordanian, told investigators that when he returned home at around 2.30pm his daughter was crying while narrating her ordeal.

The court will give its verdict on August 31.