UAE | Crime
Man 'forced ex-wife to write worthless cheques'
An 11-year-old schoolgirl and her 14-year-old brother stepped in to aid their mother who is standing trial for issuing two bad cheques to their father.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:10 March 19, 2008
Dubai: An 11-year-old schoolgirl and her 14-year-old brother stepped in to aid their mother who is standing trial for issuing two bad cheques to their father.
The Emirati schoolchildren attended the Dubai Court of Misdemeanour on Tuesday and claimed that their father had "pulled their mother's hair and forced her to sign the cheques."
"My parents are divorced and they have disputes. I saw my father pulling my mother's hair, he scolded her and then forced her to sign the cheques inside the second room in our house in Sharjah... My brother and I were watching from the partially open door... I cannot identify the cheques' numbers because I was too far away," the 11-year-old schoolgirl told Presiding Judge Ebrahim Khalil.
The Public Prosecution charged the Egyptian mother, who was married to an Emirati, with signing two worthless cheques which are believed to have been written out for more than Dh80,000.
The suspect who pleaded not guilty during her first appearance in court claimed that her husband hit her and forced her to sign the cheques while he pulled her hair.
Stood watching
During Tuesday's hearing, the 14-year-old schoolboy said: "It was daytime and we were at home... my father pulled my mother by her hair when she signed the cheques. He asked us to stay outside the room where the incident happened, but we stood watching from the door."
The suspect said she complied with her former husband to avoid being beaten in front of her children.
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