Dubai: Two cleaners have been jailed for three months each for molesting a seven-year-old schoolboy in their residence after showing him indecent footage.
The Filipino cleaners, 25-year-old A.V. and 21-year-old N.J., took the Kenyan boy while he was playing in front of his home to their residence where they played to him dirty images on a mobile phone before one of them molested him in March.
The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the Filipinos of breaching the boy’s privacy by showing him the indecent movies as N.J. molested the boy while A.V. aided and abetted him. The 25-year-old was convicted of possessing pornographic material with the intent to show it to others.
“I did not molest the boy,” argued N.J. when he entered a not guilty plea. A.V. admitted his crime.
Presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi said the defendants will be deported following the completion of their jail terms.
The boy’s Kenyan mother said she went out to look for her child at 8pm because he was late coming home.
“I went out to search for my boy who was playing outside. The maid called me at 9.15pm and told me that my son had returned home. When I asked him why he was late, he remained silent. Then he cried … when I insisted on him speaking, he claimed to me to that the cleaners molested him. He said they took him to a room where they showed him images of naked women and one of them touched him indecently,” the mother claimed.
Records said police arrested the defendants shortly after the mother reported the incident.
Wednesday’s ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
