Dubai: A cleaner has been accused of luring a child to a building’s security room where he kissed and groped him and made him touch him, heard a court on Monday.
The six-year-old child was said to be playing in the garden of his family’s residence with the neighbour’s son before the latter ran back to his parent’s flat to bring a toy in October.
When the neighbour’s son was late in returning, the boy followed him to the flat, according to records, before the building’s Indian cleaner, 37, stopped him.
The boy told the cleaner to let him go to the neighbour’s flat but the cleaner talked him into accompanying him to the security room to show him the surveillance cameras.
The cleaner was then believed to have lifted the boy up to a table beside the screens of the cameras and kissed the boy first. Then he groped the boy, made him touch him and behaved with him indecently.
When the boy saw that his friend had left the flat on the screens, he asked the cleaner to let him go.
Records said the boy’s mother came to know that the cleaner had kissed and groped her son and acted indecently while she was bathing him in the evening.
The mother reported the matter to the police after she discovered that the Indian cleaner had finished his work shift and left the building at 6pm.
Police identified the suspect and apprehended afterwards.
Prosecutors accused the suspect of molesting a minor.
The suspect pleaded not guilty when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Monday.
The mother testified to prosecutors: “My son informed me that the cleaner took him to the security room to watch the cameras. Then he put him up on the table and touched him indecently and kissed him … he also claimed to me that the suspect removed his dress and groped him.”
A police lieutenant told prosecutors: “Following his arrest, the suspect admitted to me during questioning that he groped the boy, kissed him and tried to perform an indecent sexual act on him.”
Presiding judge Urfan Omar will sentence the suspect on December 25.
