UAE | Crime
Dubai Police save baby from being sold
Runaway maid had given child to another domestic helper who attempted to sell infant
- By Siham Al Najami, Staff Reporter, Gulf News
- Published: 16:19 November 11, 2009
- Image Credit: Gulf News
Dubai: A housemaid has been arrested for selling a nearly two-month-old infant for Dh10,000 to a police officer disguised in an undercover operation.
An Indonesian housemaid who ran away from her sponsor, an Emirati family in the northern emirates, offered to help a Filipina housemaid who had also ran away from her sponsor.
The Indonesian suspect confessed to the police that she sold the Filipina's baby without his mother's knowledge.
The Filipina just wanted to get rid of the baby by offering him for adoption to any of the Emirati families, said Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Rahim Bin Shafi, director of the anti-organised crimes department at Dubai Police, who referred the case to the combating human trafficking department.
According to him, the mother left the sponsor to work as a part time domestic helper for a European family. During this time, the Filipina worker, identified as N.B.M, had an illicit affair with a Filipino, who shortly left the country after her pregnancy.
The Filipina gave birth to the baby at home, leaving him with no legal or official documents. After nearly two months, she decided she wanted to leave the country, seeking the assistance of the Indonesian maid, identified as H.N.S, who offered to find a family for her baby.
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