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28 March 2024

Home help helps himself to housemaid

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By Eman Al Baik

A Bangladeshi home helper molested a Filipina maid in a flat on their way back from a medical test, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

On September 11, at around 9am, the victim SMM, 25, went with MEM, 25, to a medical centre at Oud Al Muteena for a medical test. “After the test, MEM asked me to come with him for a minute to a building which I did not know. As I trusted him, I went with him to a flat where there was another Bangladeshi man. MEM spoke to him and the latter left the flat. MEM locked the door and started molesting me against my will and tried to undress me.  I kicked him and rushed to the bathroom and locked the door. From behind the door, he promised not to touch me and begged me not to tell our sponsor. I opened the door and left the flat with him. After we reached our sponsor’s house, I told Halima, an Ethiopian maid who works in the house, about what happened and she told our sponsor’s wife,” SMM testified.

Mohammed Afzal, 28, Bangladeshi salesman, testified that at around 10am he got a phone call from MEM telling him that he had some stuff which he wanted to deliver. “I asked him to come to my accommodation in the International City. MEM arrived at around 2pm and a Filipina was with him. He gave me the stuff and we moved to my flat and while we were in my flat I got a call from my office asking me to come. MEM wanted to rest in my house. I agree and when I left the flat, I asked him to leave the key of the house under the doormat.  I do not know what happened after I left,” he testified.

Halima Abdo, 27, testified that SMM was looking unwell when she returned from the medical test. “She was crying the whole day and refused to tell me the reason when I asked her. As she did not sleep the whole night and was crying, I repeated my question. At around 5pm of the next day she told me what MEM did to her in his friend’s flat. I told my sponsor’s wife,” testified Halima.

Bobi Jain, 35, Filipina, testified that on September 15, at around 11am, he got a call from SMM who was crying and told him that she did not want to work for the family and wanted to return to the office. “When I asked her about the reason she told me that her employer’s driver had tried to rape her. Later in the day, the sponsor’s wife called and I told her about the incident,” he testified.