Dubai: A woman, who pretended to be her sister when she went to deliver an illegitimate child that she had conceived out of wedlock, has been sentenced to three months in jail.
The 27-year-old woman, from Comoros Islands, visited the hospital to give birth to a child that resulted from an illicit relationship.
The Dubai Court of First Instance found the woman guilty after she admitted that she had impersonated her sister and forged the emergency’s admission papers in August.
The defendant, who has five children, said before presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi: “Yes, I did.”
The Dubai Misdemeanours Court had earlier jailed the woman for two months for having sex with a man identified as Z.
She was also handed a deportation order by the Misdemeanours Court.
According to Wednesday’s ruling, presiding judge Al Shamsi said the forged papers will be confiscated.
When she entered the emergency ward at the hospital for delivery, according to records, the defendant claimed to be her sister and asked the nurse to fill in the form.
She told the prosecutors that her husband had thrown her out of the house because of marital disputes. “My husband forced me out of the house in 2014 … he was jailed in a drug case. During his imprisonment, I met an Emirati, named Z. Our friendship developed into a love affair. We had consensual and unmarried sex several times in Dubai, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah. We had a fight and broke up. Later I discovered that I was carrying his child,” she told prosecutors.
The Filipina nurse who registered the defendant said the accused came to the hospital and she was in labour. “She said she did not have any identification papers. I had to register the name that she told me. When I asked her if her husband was with her, she claimed to me that she had a file in the hospital and that she could fill in the application herself. When she was being admitted, she alleged that she did not have her health card or Emirates ID … thereafter when we checked the contact number that she had provided to us in the system, we discovered that she was another person.”
The primary ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.