3 months to cool off for touching woman's butt

The Dubai Criminal Court awarded an Egyptian who molested a Syrian housewife in Ibn Battuta Mall to three months in jail followed by deportation.

“He touched my butt… made a dirty touch … turned and looked at me and smiled,” a 25-year-old, Syrian housewife told the prosecution.

The court charged MTA, 25, Egytian, assistant carpenter of indecent assault under duress who touched the woman’s butt while walking in the mall.

The complainant SM testified before the prosecution that about ten days before logging the police complaint and while she was shopping in Ibn Battuta Mall between 2-5pm and while was in Al Safwa Watches shop, the accused entered the shop and talked to the salesman with an Egyptian accent in English.

“I left the shop and went to the hypermarket and while I was pushing the shopping trolley I was stunned as a man touched my butt... walked fast and then turned his face and smiled to me and left quickly. He was the same man who entered the watch shop,” she said.

“When I reached home I was embarrassed to tell my husband, but I told my sister,” she said.

However, when I saw him again in the same shopping mall ten days later, I felt very angry and I could not help not tell my husband,” SM told the prosecution.

The husband and his brother called police and rushed to the mall and caught the assailant.

Issa Abdul Rahman, 24, policeman, testified before the prosecution that the accused has confessed before the police that he deliberately touched the woman’s butt after following her while she was shopping in the mall as he admired her beauty.

The accused has blamed the devil for what he has done and admitted guilt and asked for the woman’s forgiveness saying it was the first time he committed such a mistake in his life, the policeman testified.
 
Similarly testified Ahmad Saleh, 30, policeman, saying that the accused confessed to attempting to draw the attention of the woman he admired. But as all his attempt went in vain, and when stepping close to the exit of the shopping mall he deliberately touched her butt because she did not give him attention.

However, the accused denied the accusation before the court and claimed “it is a made up story by the woman and that what she claims is out of her imagination… and she did that because of a lack of sexual harmony with her husband and her.”

The court found him guilty and sentenced him the jail term and ordered his deportation after finishing imprisonment.

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