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Accused in birth certificate case seeks clemency
A barren woman, who allegedly tried to unlawfully obtain a son by aiding the biological mother, is seeking clemency before the Dubai Appeals Court.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:31 December 28, 2008
Dubai: A barren woman, who allegedly tried to unlawfully obtain a son by aiding the biological mother, is seeking clemency before the Dubai Appeals Court.
She is accused of helping the mother falsify the newborn's birth certificate and attributing the delivery to herself.
The 27-year-old Emirati woman has appealed the primary verdict, one-year suspended imprisonment, in front of the Dubai Court of Appeal where she is seeking clemency.
An appeal court hearing will be scheduled soon.
Suspended sentence
The Dubai Court of First Instance recently awarded the 30-year-old biological Emirati mother, S.M., three years in jail for misleading the health authorities and adding false information in her baby's birth certificate.
The biological mother was incriminated with falsely informing the authorities that 27-year-old A.S. delivered the baby boy.
A.S. was awarded a year in jail which has been suspended for three years.
Meanwhile her 45-year-old mother, N.S., was acquitted of aiding and abetting S.M. commit her crime on grounds of insufficient evidence.
The 27-year-old woman and her 45-year-old mother pleaded not guilty to aiding and abetting S.M. and claimed they had not seen her for the last two years when they appeared before the court.
The Public Prosecution charged S.M. with forging the birth certificate in which she wrote wrong information and claimed that A.S. delivered the baby boy.
The 45-year-old earlier said in court: "I am innocent... I've been here for the past 27 years and never committed a crime or offence in my life."
Sentence: Thief sent to prison
Dubai A man landed behind prison bars for stealing around Dh7,200 from two different victims on different occasions, at knifepoint.
The Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced the 38-year-old Indian thief, D.K., last Thursday to six months in jail followed by deportation.
Records said the accused was heavily intoxicated when he stormed into a barbershop sometime near midnight and threatened the barber and a few clients at knifepoint before stealing from the cash registers.
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