Dubai: A supervisor has been jailed for six months for molesting a teenager in his car after luring him to discuss football game tactics.

The 24-year-old Emirati supervisor picked up the 13-year-old Emirati teenager and his brothers in August and then drove to Al Mizhar where they had decided to play a football game.

The accused, K.H., asked the teenager’s brothers to go to the football pitch ahead of them so they could go and pick up the rest of the players.

When K.H. stopped at a station to fill petrol, he groped the 13-year-old and threatened to dishonour him in front of his parents if he did not have sex with him. The defendant also asked the boy to convince his schoolmates to have sex with him.

The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted K.H. of molesting the schoolboy and orally threatening to shame him before his father.

The 24-year-old pleaded not guilty and strongly refuted molesting the teenager or threatening him.

According to the charge sheet, the defendant abused the fact that the schoolboy was alone with him in his car when he molested him and asked to have sex with him. The boy refused.

The 13-year-old said the incident happened on a Thursday shortly after he met K.H. in a mosque.

“He asked me to go with him to play a football match as he had formed a team. My mother allowed me to accompany him but with my brothers. My brothers and I went with him in his car. He dropped my brothers and asked me to stay with him to go and pick up the rest of the players. At the petrol station, he talked about students who have a girlish attitude at my school. Then he told me that he was aware that I had had sex with a boy in our neighbourhood. I told him that was not true. He insisted that I did and suggested having sex with me. He said he had indecent photos on his mobile. I refused to respond to his dirty talk. I prevented him from kissing me but he took me by surprise and groped me,” claimed the boy.

Records said the schoolboy informed his father, who told the police.

Tuesday’s ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.