Dubai: An employee has been accused of luring a woman to his flat to rectify the status of her residency since she had been staying illegally and raping her.
The 29-year-old Moroccan woman was said to have been clubbing at a pub with her friend when the 23-year-old Emirati employee called her at 4am and asked her to come to his flat at Al Barsha.
The Moroccan left the pub along with her friend and went to the employee’s flat, according to records, after he had promised to help her amend her residency status because she had been staying illegally in Dubai.
Once she reached the building, the Emirati asked the friend to park his car at a sandy spot, while he took the woman up to the flat without giving its number to the friend.
Records said as soon as the two entered the flat, the man locked the door, took away the woman’s phone, beat her and then forced her into the bedroom where he removed her clothes and raped her.
The Emirati was believed to have kept the woman locked in the flat until 6pm and when he was driving her in his car to her residence, she opened the door and jumped out.
The Moroccan woman reported the matter to the police who apprehended the Emirati nine days later.
Prosecutors accused the Emirati suspect of using physical violence while raping the woman.
The suspect failed to appear before the Dubai Court of First Instance where he was scheduled to enter his plea on Tuesday.
The woman claimed to prosecutors that she went with her friend to the suspect’s flat at 6am because he had promised to help her in amending her residency status.
“He called me while I was with my friend at the club at 4am. We reached his building at 6am … while my friend went to park the car, the suspect took me to the flat. Once he closed the door, he snatched away my phone and switched it off. Then he beat me, pushed me into the bedroom after he had forced me drink a glass of liquor … then he had unprotected sex with me. I cried and begged him to stop, but he didn’t. He kept me locked in the flat until 6pm and while taking me home, I jumped out of his car and absconded in a taxi,” she testified to prosecutors.
A police lieutenant, who questioned the suspect, claimed to prosecutors that the suspect alleged that he had consensual sex with the Moroccan.
“He alleged that he had been having a sexual affair with her for 18 months. The suspect claimed that she used to visit his place where they would have alcohol and then consensual sex. On the day of the incident, according to the suspect’s claims, they had liquor and sex and while driving her to her house, she suddenly jumped out of his vehicle,” he testified to prosecutors.
The suspect will be sentenced in absentia on June 26.
