Bus driver convicted of sex with a minor

Dubai: A bus driver will spend 10 years in jail for having sex with a 12-year-old schoolgirl after he seduced her with Valentine's gifts.

The Dubai Court of First Instance incriminated the 30-year-old Pakistani, accused of raping a compatriot schoolgirl. He will be deported after serving his imprisonment.

Public Prosecution records cited the girl testifying that the accused, T.Y., professed his love for her on Valentine's Day and brought her presents before he had sex with her.

The driver pleaded not guilty to the charge of rape however; according to the UAE penal code, sex with a minor-under the age of 14 is considered rape.

The schoolgirl's seven-year-old sister stated that T.Y. and her sister "were in love" and saw them kissing a number of times.

The younger girl told the public prosecutor who grilled her that her sister and T.Y. used to spend time together "behind the bus's closed curtains".

The schoolgirl said she fell in love with T.Y. when he used to work as a driver at her school before he switched his job. "On Valentine's Day he confessed that he loved me and gave me a pendant and wristwatch.

We'd talk over the phone after I had finished school and was alone at home when my parents went to work. I used to meet him in the bus and our relationship evolved from touching, hugging and kissing to having sex with him four or five times," she testified.