Sharjah: A man, his wife, her two daughters and two other women were jailed for six months and ordered to be deported after a court in Sharjah found them guilty of adultery.
The Sharjah Sharia Court of First Instance found the five Iraqi women guilty of having sex with different men in return for money.
The court also sentenced their Ethiopian housemaid, identified as Emily, to three months in jail followed by deportation for not working with her original sponsor.
Police said the women and the man were arrested in a building in Al Ta'awun area in Sharjah. They were staying in apartment No 1602.
Police arrested all of them when an Iraqi girl, Azra, was arrested in Umm Al Quwain for committing adultery.
Azra told police that she entered the country from Iraq through Dubai airport with the help of Khedr and his wife Laila. She said they helped her to work in Umm Al Quwain as a prostitute.
According to court papers, the first accused in the case, Tamara, told police that she lived in apartment No 1602 with her mother Laila and Khedr and that she used to have sex with men in return for money. The second accused, Fatima, also admitted to committing adultery. She told the police that she also lived in the same apartment.
The third accused, Ameera, told the police that she had been living with them for 10 days only and that she was married. Ameera said she slept with men for money.
The fourth accused, Nagam, told the police that she came to the UAE four months ago to work as a prostitute and that her husband is still living in Iraq.
Laila said she has divorced Khedr, but he has been staying with her.
According to court papers Laila will be sentenced to another month, in addition to the six months for prostitution, because she employed a housemaid who was not on her sponsorship.
