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28 March 2024

Worker gropes two little girls in garment shop

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By Eman Al Baik

A Bangladeshi worker allegedly groped two little girls, seeing that they were away from their parents while they were in a garment shop, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

On May 9, the girls’ father, NM, Lebanese, accompanied his family to a garment shop on Muraqqabat Street.

“My two daughters, aged 7 and 6 respectively, were standing near me and their mother while we were looking at some garments in the shop. After sometimes, my elder daughter came to me looking scared and told me that a man had hugged her, taken her onto his lap and then groped her private parts and body. She told me that he trickily pulled her close to him by waving a toy,” the father told investigators.

While the little girl was telling her father about the incident she shouted “that was the man” and pointed at an Asian who was using the escalator in the shop.

“I ran after him but lost him in the crowd. I rushed back to the shop and asked the staff for camera footage to try to recognise the features of my daughter’s groper.

“When they refused, I reported the incident to the police who arrived and we reviewed the video recording. A man was seen hugging and holding my daughter in his lap before groping her private parts and rubbing his lower part against her body,” the father testified.
 
Police obtained pictures of the accused that showed his features clearly and distributed the pictures to shops in the area.

A month later, a saleswoman of the same shop informed the police when a suspected Asian entered the shop.

Police arrived and arrested, MR, 33, Bangladeshi worker, and the parents and the girl recognised him when shown to them.
 
The accused admitted that the man in the picture was him.  He was scared and confused and admitted to hugging and carrying the girl and then groping her before rubbing his lower part against her body, said Corporal Khalid Saeed.

When asked why he did that, he said that he does not know why.  He denied groping the younger one though he admitted trying to do so.
 
The court will issue its verdict on September 2.