Dubai: Two Saudi visitors claimed in court they were made to believe that a 15-year-old girl they had sex with was no longer a minor.

Prosecutors accused the 27-year-old M.K. and 30-year-old B.S. before the Dubai Misdemeanour Court of having consensual sex with a minor.

The South African teenager was holidaying with her family in Dubai when the crime was allegedly committed.

The girl was separately charged and was found guilty of having consensual sex at the Dubai Juveniles Court. The court ordered her deportation.

Men pleaded guilty

While the two accused men pleaded guilty, they insisted before Judge Khalil Ebrahim Abu Shamma that they did not know that the girl, identified as M.E., was just 15 years old.

The accused M.K. told prosecutors that the girl had told them that she was 18.

Court records showed that the girl was walking with her younger brother in the tennis court of a hotel where their family was staying when the two approached them and invited them for a drive around town.

Al Barsha

In her testimony, the girl said she accepted the offer as she too was a tourist.

The men allegedly brought the girl to a hotel room in Al Barsha where the crime was committed.

In his testimony, the accused B.S. said: "She agreed to go with us. Then she left her brother in our car and went up with us to the hotel room… we had consensual sex with her. She did not charge us money as well.

"We refused to allow her to sleep at our hotel room when she asked us to allow her to do so."

Frightened to resist

The girl, however, told prosecutors that she was too frightened to resist.

"When they finished, they took me [to] the washroom and sprinkled me with water then they drove me back to the hotel," she said.

The men were arrested by policemen who were at the hotel after the girl's father sought their help in finding his daughter.

The court is expected to hand down its verdict on the case next week.

Teenage rebellion

Meanwhile, a psycho analyst at the Family and Juveniles Prosecution, who examined the girl, reported that she is an unstable teenager and behaves recklessly.

"She is undergoing a critical teenage rebellion phase although her parents' financial situation is excellent and they take good care of her.

"She is out of control and we recommend deporting her," the psychoanalyst said in her report that was submitted to the Juveniles Court.