DUBAI // A security guard’s one year in jail for sexually assaulting a housekeeper has been upheld by the Dubai Court of Appeal.
Last August, Dubai Criminal Court convicted Indian AA of raping Filipina AB on July 5.
The 32-year-old victim told prosecutors she works at a cleaning company and on the day of the incident she was cleaning a bedroom in a villa when the defendant came into the room.
“The villa owner was not there at the time, the 31-year-old defendant came to the bedroom and asked me to sit down on the bed,” she said.
When I asked him why, he pushed me on the bed and jumped on top of me, AB said.
“He pinned me on the bed, and took off my clothes before he raped me,” she continued, adding that the assault lasted for 10 minutes before he got up and told her to not tell anyone about it.
Yemeni police officer AMA, 43, testified that the victim came to the police station and filed a report about the rape.
“She told us that she tried to resist the rape but he overpowered her,” said the police officer.
The victim told the police officer that she didn’t scream for help because she was in a state of shock and fear.
Police officers arrested the man at the villa.
A forensic report said that DNA evidence found on the bed sheet belonged to a male, who was not named in the report.
The court upheld AA’s sentence and deportation order.
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