Dubai: A housemaid has been arrested after being accused by her sponsor of molesting his children, including his one-year-old daughter, a Dubai Police source said.
The source said the maid, identified as a 36-year-old Filipina named M.H.A., was arrested at her Emirati sponsor’s house in Al Barsha.
She is detained in Al Aweer Central Jail and the case has been transferred to the public prosecution for further investigation, the police official added.
The maid has been accused of having sex with the sponsor’s eight-year-old son, identified as K.M.R., according to police. She is also accused of forcing the boy to have sex with his 12-year-old sister.
There is also an accusation by the sponsor that she had sex with a Pakistani gardener who visited the house weekly, police said.
She has been identified as a divorced mother of a three-year-old boy who came to work for the family in May 2011.
According to police documents, the housemaid has denied all the accusations against her.
Police said according to Wudeema’s Law, the housemaid can face the death sentence if she is convicted of sexually abusing the children.