UAE | Crime
Man jailed in UAE for forcing teen girl into prostitution
A man has been jailed for forcing a teenage girl to sleep with ten men before she escaped, a court ruled on Tuesday.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:17 April 16, 2008
Dubai: A man has been jailed for forcing a teenage girl to sleep with ten men before she escaped, a court ruled on Tuesday.
The Dubai Court of First Instance found the 39-year-old Bangladeshi, M.A., guilty of attempted human trafficking and sentenced him to three years in prison. He will be deported after serving his punishment.
Records said the 17-year-old Bangladeshi girl escaped by jumping out of a taxi after it stopped at a red light and ran into a grocery store. She called the police from the shop and identified M.A. who was arrested immediately by a team from Dubai police's Anti-Human Trafficking Section.
The Public Prosecution charged him with violating Federal Law No. 51, 2006, for human trafficking, when he sexually exploited the girl and forced her to sleep with different men for money.
M.A. denied the charges and pleaded not guilty before the court.
The girl said the accused threatened her that she "would never see her country again if she didn't have sex with men."
She testified: "He had locked me and other women up in a flat in the Al Hamriya area since I arrived. Some women told me the accused was a pimp. The defendant had earlier promised to let me work as a housemaid with families."
She said when she refused to work in the sex industry "he threatened that he wouldn't send money to my parents."
An Indian witness said he used to drive the accused to different places in Dubai.
"One day he asked me to drop three women at three different places in Bur Dubai. When the defendant informed me that the women were prostitutes who worked for him, I stopped dealing with him," he added.
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