Dubai: A woman has landed in court for pretending to be her sister when she went to deliver an illegitimate child that she had conceived following an affair.

The 27-year-old woman, from Comoros Islands, visited a hospital to give birth to a child that resulted from an out-of-wedlock relationship. She impersonated her sister and forged the emergency’s admission papers in August, a court was told.

Prosecutors accused the woman of forging the admission papers and using them.

The defendant, a mother of five children, pleaded guilty when she appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday.

“Yes, I did,” the defendant told presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi as she held her newborn in her arms in court.

Earlier this month, the Dubai Misdemeanours Court jailed the woman for two months for having sex with a man identified as Z.

She was also handed a deportation order by the misdemeanours court.

Records said when she entered the emergency ward at the hospital for delivery, she claimed to be her sister and asked the nurse to fill in the form.

The defendant told the prosecutors that her husband kicked her out of the house because she had marital disputes with him. “My husband abandoned me and forced me out of the house in 2014 … he was also jailed. During his time in prison I met someone believed to be an Emirati, named Z. The first two months we were friends and then our relationship developed into a love affair. We had consensual and unmarried sex several times in Dubai, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah … later we fought and broke up and then I discovered that I was pregnant,” she told prosecutors.

The Filipina nurse who registered the defendant said: “The woman came to the hospital and she was in labour. When I asked her for her identification papers, she claimed that she did not have any papers. Therefore I had to register the name that she told me. When I asked her if her husband was present with her, she claimed to me that she had a file in the hospital and that she could fill in the application by herself. At the time when she was being admitted to hospital, she alleged that she did not have her health card or Emirates ID … thereafter when we checked the contact number that she had provided to us in the system, we discovered that she was another person.”

Presiding judge Al Shamsi adjourned the case to hand out a judgement on February 10.