Dubai: A security guard has been jailed for one year for locking a housemaid in a waiting room and molesting her while she waited for a taxi.
The 30-year-old Bangladeshi defendant, M.R., was accused of confining the Filipina housemaid in a high-rise tower flat after he talked her into waiting for a taxi on the 27th floor. Then he locked her up against her will and molested her, Dubai Court of First Instance heard.
The woman testified that the accused told her to wait for the taxi in a hall which he described as a ‘waiting hall’ before he abused her.
M.R. denied the charges and claimed there had been another man in the flat.
Presiding Judge Maher Salama Al Mahdi said the defendant will be deported after his punishment.
The victim said the incident happened when she asked M.R. how she could find a taxi during Ramadan. “He took me up to the 27th floor and kept me in the hall after he claimed that I was not allowed to wait at the reception. I noticed that it was ordinary flat. He locked the door and kept the key in his pocket. The defendant asked me to trust him because he is a security guard and would not hurt me.
“He made me sit on a sofa. When I tried to move away, he grabbed me from my shoulder and pushed me down to the sofa. He partly removed my T-shirt from the shoulder side and peeped at my bra. Then he removed it again and exposed my underwear. I phoned my sponsor twice and his wife but they didn’t answer. I claimed to M.R. that I called my brother,” claimed the housemaid.
Records said the defendant felt scared, so he opened the door and let the woman leave.
The sponsor reported the matter to the police.
Wednesday’s judgment remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
