UAE | Crime
Fight over rate for consensual sex 'is not rape'
Suspect is charged with raping his compatriot, an 18-year-old Kyrgyzstan girl, in his Palm Jumeirah villa
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:31 May 27, 2009
Dubai: A lawyer said Wednesday that whenever a suspect disagrees with a woman over her rate for having consensual sex, the matter is identified as rape and referred to court.
"Every suspect who quarrels with a girl over the rate she charges for having consensual sex is arraigned for rape and referred to court for prosecution and almost all rape cases are referred to court due to financial disagreements," argued lawyer Ali Abdullah Al Shamsi while defending a 27-year-old Kyrgyzstan suspect before the Dubai Court of First Instance Wednesday.
The suspect is charged with raping his 18-year-old compatriot girl. The suspect, D.K., who is a merchant, and his 24-year-old co-accused compatriot visitor, T.M., pleaded not guilty to the charge of raping the girl.
Al Shamsi defended that the medical examination and forensic report confirmed there was no act of violence during the incident.
"A forensic doctor testified before the Public Prosecution and the court that there were signs of violence on the girl's body. She was not raped as she claimed& this is consensual sex and not a rape incident," argued Al Shamsi.
Al Shamsi and a team of defence lawyers comprising Saeed Al Ghailani, Nabih Badr, Obaid Ali Obaid, Amal Bakri and Salman Lutfi argued before Presiding Judge Fahmi Mounir that the suspects didn't rape the girl.
They unanimously defended that the girl, S.S., phoned T.M. after midnight and asked to go out with him before they headed to D.K.'s villa in Palm Jumeirah and had consensual sex.
The lawyers asked the court to pronounce their clients' innocence or refer them to the Dubai Court of Misdemeanors to be prosecuted, alongwith S.S., for having consensual sex.
"We had dinner and consumed alcohol at the ground floor. T.M. left me alone with D.K. several times and I asked him to drop me home because I was afraid. He said he couldn't because we were drunk and said he would do so around sunrise. D.K. took me to watch a film in the bedroom upstairs and he pushed me on to the bed where he raped me and T.K. did the same," claimed S.S.
The verdict will be heard soon.
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