Uzbek woman jailed for luring compatriot into prostitution in Dubai

Dubai: A woman was sentenced to three years in jail for deceiving two girls by offering them bogus jobs in Dubai before forcing them into prostitution

The Dubai Court of First Instance incriminated the 48-year-old Uzbek woman, O.D., of exploiting the fact that her two countrywomen needed a better job in Dubai before she exploited them sexually and forced them into prostitution.

A 50-year-old Azeri woman, identified as N.S., was acquitted for lack of evidence.

Prosecution records said O.D. exploited the girls, 30-year-old K.I. and 20-year-old D.R., and continually forced into prostitution for days before they ran away from the flat in Abu Hail.

The girls were said to have roped their way out of the first-floor flat down to the street. K.I. fell and broke her leg, before D.R. stopped a taxi and asked him to take them to the Uzbek Consulate.

The victimised girls were rushed to hospital where the anti-human trafficking police took their statements.

Presiding Judge Maher Salama Al Mahdi also jailed two more Uzbek girls, I.K. and I.T., for one year each for working in prostitution.

“The three accused [O.D., I.K. and I.T.] will be deported following the completion of their jail terms,” said Presiding Judge Al Mahdi.

The defendants pleaded innocent when they appeared in court.

Police raided the flat and arrested O.D. and N.S. in a sting operation.

K.I. said she worked as a tailor in her hometown before she was lured by a bogus job offer to Dubai and was coerced into prostitution.

D.R., who worked in cleaning cars, said she suffered the same thing.

The girls claimed that the defendants withheld their passports and forced them into prostitution.

The primary judgment remains subject to appeal within 15 days.