Dubai: A football coach at a reputable Dubai club has been accused of having out-of-wedlock sex with a woman, he met in a hotel in Jumairah, and that resulted in an illegal baby.

The illegal and consensual love affair remained discrete since 2007 until the 29-year-old Moldovan woman turned herself in last month so she could return home after having accumulated a list of residency violations.

Prosecution records said the 27-year-old Emirati football coach exchanged contacts with the woman when they met in a coffee shop at a famous hotel in Jumeirah.

The couple dated for a while before a love affair blossomed between the two and she moved in to the coach’s house in Al Ghusais.

Records said the couple lived together like married couple and constantly had unlawful sex before the woman conceived in 2008.

She delivered a baby boy in 2009 but the hospital management didn’t issue for them a birth certificate after the unmarried lovers failed to prove they were married.

According to the charged sheet, prosecutors accused the couple of having consensual sex. The Moldovan woman was solely charged with overstaying and failing to pay the fines for staying illegally in the country.

“I came for work here in 2003. I met the coach in 2007 and moved into his house. We were not married, and I gave birth to an illegal baby boy, who turned three. When I was admitted to hospital for delivery, I provided them with a copy of my Moldovan identity and my husband’s passport copy. I couldn’t report the authorities earlier because I was afraid that they might take my child. My lover’s family is aware that we are not married. The hospital discharged me and my baby after my lover promised to get a marriage certificate later,” claimed the woman.

The coach confirmed the woman’s statement and claimed during questioning that the hospital’s management, at first, didn’t want to provide him with a birth certificate for his son.

“When they asked me about the marriage contract, I lied and claimed to them that I lost it. Then they said that I would have to pay for the delivery. Then they asked me to revisit a public hospital, which I never did. The woman turned herself in because she wanted to return to Moldova. I was hesitant to head to the court and do a marriage contract. My partner lost her passport and that’s why she became an illegal resident,” claimed the Emirati.

The Moldovan woman did not enter a plea before the Dubai Misdemeanour Court because she was not brought from her detention.

Meanwhile the Emirati failed to appear in court.

The trial continues.