DUBAI // A man who was hired as a private tutor to teach a young girl Quran was found guilty of molesting her and was sentenced to three months in jail.
Dubai Criminal Court heard that Bangladeshi M M, 36, who was not present in court to enter a plea against a charge of sexual assault, was hired to teach the girl Quran two times a week at her home.
The girl’s American mother, R S, 35, told prosecutors: “He came Fridays and Saturdays and on October 25 last year at nearly 12 midday I heard my daughter screaming ‘don’t’ so I went to check on her and found her standing near the wall with fear all over her face.”
When the tutor left, she asked her daughter what had happened. “She told me that he had been touching her inappropriately for over a month,” the mother testified, adding that she then asked the man not to return to her house and she called police.
The man was arrested on October 29 and he will be deported after serving his time.
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