Maid in the dock for stealing Dhs36,700

Sohaila Ahmed, Staff reporter

The Dubai Public Prosecution referred a 28 year-old African woman to court, for stealing an amount of Dhs36,700 from the house she works in as a maid.

Owner of the house testified that once he discovered that the money was missing from the pocket of his jacket, he immediately called his brother and wife to look for the maid, who was outside the house at that time.

After which, the owner called the police and notified security guards of the residential complex he lives in.

Security guards claimed to have seen a suspicious-looking woman wearing Abaya, and immediately stopped her and called the police.

At first, the accused denied all charges, but after confronting her with evidence, she confessed to the crime and said she had hid the money between trees of the complex. She accompanied police to the site where she had claimed to hid the money, but they never found it.

Recently, the Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a maid to three months in jail to be followed by deportation on theft charges.

According to the official records, the defendant was working as a maid in her employer’s house and was doing the usual cleaning work. On the day of the incident, the victim woke up at dawn to discover that the maid was not in the house. The victim checked the house to discover that a gold necklace worth Dhs5,000 plus Dhs2,500 were missing. She knew that it was the maid who stole the necklace and the money because she ran away.

Earlier, the victim gave the maid a mobile phone to call her relatives and friends. The victim found the mobile but discovered that the maid had deleted all messages and contacts on the phone before she ran away.

In another case, an Asian employee, 33, molested an Arab employee, 35, while she was with her mother and children at a children’s toys section in the Dragon Mart, International City.

The victim testified before Dubai Public Prosecution that while she was wandering around at children’s toys section in the International City to buy some toys for her children, she noticed that the defendant was looking at her suspiciously and walking behind her wherever she went. She felt scared but the defendant soon stood behind her and molested her. She shouted at him and rebuffed him for what he did. The shoppers gathered around them and the police came and arrested the defendant.

In a separate case, on Thursday, the Dubai Criminal Court sentenced an Asian to 10 years in jail to be followed by deportation on charges of conniving with other suspects of human trafficking cases, exploitation of a minor girl and forcing her to practise immoral acts.