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Woman helps boy pay blood money
An Emirati woman from Al Ain had donated Dh70,000 as part of blood money in order to help end the ordeal of a Pakistani teenager who ran over his neighbour's child.
- By Bassma Al Jandaly, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:45 October 21, 2008
Ajman: An Emirati woman from Al Ain had donated Dh70,000 as part of blood money in order to help end the ordeal of a Pakistani teenager who ran over his neighbour's child.
The toddler died and police told the teenager, who was driving his father's car at the time of the incident, that he had to pay the blood money.
Hussain, a 14-year-old Pakistani boy has been in Ajman Central Jail for around four months after his attempt to drive ended in tragedy with the death of the two-year-old Yemeni girl near the Al Shula Club in Ajman.
Police told Gulf News that the boy was released on bail but will be detained again if he did not pay the victim's family Dh200,000 as blood money.
The decision to impose the payment of blood money on the young offender was taken by the court, he said.
Humanitarian reasons
The fine was decided by the court for Dh100,000 because the victim is a female. "We bailed the boy for humanitarian reasons. He received aid from an Emirati well-wisher from Al Ain who donated Dh70,000 for him," police said. A police official said the boy came from a poor family and could not raise the needed money.
Police added that if the boy did not pay the rest of the amount - Dh30,000 - he will be put back in jail.
Police said the teenager drove away in his father's car when he (father) was sleeping. As he ventured onto a road in the locality the little girl happened to be playing outside her house in the same area, when the accident occurred. The toddler was killed instantly.
Hussain was bailed recently when he paid part of the blood money which he received as donation. "If a teenager drives a car without the knowledge of the owner, the responsibility will be on the youngster," said an official.
Police said if the teenager had been allowed to drive the car by the owner of the car, then both of them would be held equally liable.
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