Sharjah: The Sharjah public prosecutor has ordered that the case be dropped against the parents of a four-year-old girl who plunged to her death from the window of her 15th floor apartment on November 19 in the Al Qasimya area of Sharjah, Gulf News has learned.
The Egyptian child, identified as Jeni Amir Abdul Adheim Hussaini, fell out of the window due to the negligence of her parents, a Sharjah Police official had said earlier.
The public prosecutor, however, said her parents were not to blame. The girl's father could not be blamed for negligence as he didn't have full responsibility for the children due to work commitments. The girl's mother was blamed but the case will be shelved, the official said, as she had no intention of killing her daughter.
The case was the first of its kind in the UAE in which parents were accused of causing the death of their child due to negligence.
A spate of incidents of children falling from high-rise buildings has drawn the attention of the authorities who have asked that parents be responsible and not act in a negligent manner.
Earlier, Sharjah Police had blamed the couple who had left a window open in their flat while they went late night shopping, leaving their two children
According to the police, the girl's parents had gone to a hypermarket, leaving their two children — four-year-old Jeni Amir and their year-and-a-half-old son — alone in their house when the accident happened.
‘Remain sleeping'
"While they were enjoying their time shopping, they expected that their kids would remain sleeping until morning as they used to do every day," said the official.
He said the parents had left a window open as most people had stopped using air conditioning with the arrival of the cooler autumn weather. Describing a possible scenario preceding the accident, he said the girl may have climbed onto a table placed next to the window, tried to look outside and subsequently lost her balance and fell out.
