16-year-old human trafficking victim breaks down in court

A judge has ordered a delay in the hearing of a human trafficking case when the 16-year-old victim cried in court and the translator assigned to her spoke another dialect.

Records show that she arrived in Dubai on September 28, 2010 and was held against her will from the first day by both suspects.

Prosecutors said that she refused F.B.'s demands to do sexual service for money. She was reportedly raped by M.Z. twice and by two other men from Pakistan, records show.

She told prosecutors that she begged F.B. to let her go. Eventually, F.B. gave her Dh50 and a phone number and told her to sneak out of the house while her husband was asleep. F.B. told her not to give investigators directions to the house or identify her and M.Z., records show.

The victim reported the crime to Naif police station on November 1, 2010.

Man charged with molesting boy

A man was charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy in a hotel room in Dubai.

Labourer Q.M., 32, was accused of luring the victim into a hotel room and molesting him on September 15 last year.

Records show that the Bangladeshi suspect met J.H. four days after Eid Al Fitr in a Sharjah mall and offered him Dh300 to accompany him.

J.H., a Bangladeshi student, told prosecutors he went with the suspect in a taxi to a hotel room in Dubai and was sexually assaulted by Q.M.

When J.H. returned home the next day, he told his father he was at his friend's house. His father, not believing him, pressured his son for the truth and when he learnt what happened, he reported it to the police.

Gambling suspects deny charges

Fourteen suspects, all males, denied charges of running a gambling operation.

The suspects - 10 Indians, three Sri Lankans, and a Pakistani - were arrested during a raid on a hotel room in the Naif area.

The first two suspects - H.K. and L.S. - denied charges of running and engaging in gambling, while the rest of the suspects denied charges of gambling.

The suspects, whose ages ranged from 28 to 56, were arrested on December 12, 2010 at 11.45pm. The first two suspects admitted to the police that they rented the hotel room for the purpose of gambling at the time of the arrest.

The next hearing is on February 27.

Taxi driver allegedly mugged

A 23-year-old Nigerian man denied charges of robbing a taxi driver. The suspect, S.H., was charged along with another unknown suspect of stealing money from the driver, M.S.

Both suspects claimed to be passengers going to International City, records show. Prosecutors said S.H. and his compatriot flagged the taxi in Sharjah.

When the taxi arrived at their destination, the unknown suspect was in the back seat and allegedly strangled the victim with his belt and ordered him to give all his money to S.H.

According to the victim's testimony, he fought against the suspects and reversed the car hitting the sidewalk, and the thieves jumped out and ran.

Records show that M.S. began screaming out to pedestrians about the thieves. Some pedestrians tried chasing the suspects and, according to records, a police car witnessed the pursuit and arrested one of the two suspects.