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Good samaritans provide blood money needed by boy's family
Good Samaritans have donated the remaining Dh30,000 to complete the balance of blood money needed to help end the dilemma of a Pakistani boy who ran over toddler while driving his father's car.
- By Bassma Al Jandaly, Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:23 November 4, 2008
- Image Credit: Supplied Picture
- Mushtaq, the father of the 14-year-old boy who needed blood money to be released from jail, receiving donations from Gulf News readers in Abu Dhabi.
Ajman: Good Samaritans have donated the remaining Dh30,000 to complete the balance of blood money needed to help end the dilemma of a Pakistani boy who ran over toddler while driving his father's car.
Last week a generous Emirati woman from Al Ain had donated Dh70,000 as part of money.
Mushtaq, who works as taxi driver in Ajman, said he is the father of six children and his son Hussain, 14, who ran over their neighbour's baby girl, is his youngest son.
A number of Gulf News readers in Abu Dhabi said that they were very impressed and moved by the story of the boy and they felt that they should help him to regain a normal life.
"We wanted to help him to be released from Ajman Central Jail and put an end to his ordeal," said Dr Rafeeya Sultan Pasha from Pakistan who lives in Abu Dhabi.
She said this money was collected by the Pakistani community in Abu Dhabi.
Dr Rafeeya yesterday visited Ajman police headquarter accompanied by Ghazala Ayaz Khan and other members from the Pakistani community and the Consulate to donate the money for the boy.
Colonel Sultan Al Nuaimi, Deputy Director of Ajman Police, received them in his office on Monday.
"I appreciate their efforts for helping the boy," he said.
Mushtaq told Gulf News yesterday that his son was kept in jail for three months and ten days.
"He is my younger child. He cried a lot while he was in jail. Now he is released and starts going to school again. Hussain is in grade eight," he said.
Mushtaq said the incident happened on a Friday afternoon when Hussain came back home at around 5pm while his brother and his sisters where asleep to take the car key from his brother in order to drive the taxi.
Mushtaq said that Hussain tried to drive the taxi in the neighbourhood but his attempt to drive ended in tragedy, with the death of a two-year-old Yemeni girl who was playing in Al Bustan area behind Al Shulla club in Ajman.
The toddler died on the spot and the court told the teenager that he had to pay the blood money.
Afraid of cars
"Hussain is now afraid even to sit in the car. He refuses to sit in he car if we are not with him," Mushtaq said.
Brigadier Ali Abdulla Alwan, Chief of Ajman Police, told Gulf News that the boy spent more than three months in jail but he was released on bail until he paid the victim's family Dh100,000 as blood money.
The decision to impose the payment of blood money on the young offender was taken by the court. It was supposed to be Dh200,000 but he court reduced it to Dh100,000.
Brigadier Alwan said the punishment of such crimes is paying blood money followed by deportation but the boy will not be deported for humanitarian reasons.
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