DUBAI // A seven-year-old boy stabbed a man’s finger and then threatened to “cut him again” because he was being molested, a court heard on Tuesday.
The boy said that Indian worker M M, 27, who denied sexual assault when he appeared at Dubai Criminal Court last month, pulled him to the corner of an office at his father’s company, forced him to sit on his lap and touched him.
“I told him to stop but he didn’t, so I asked two men in the office to help but they didn’t give me much attention,” said the boy, who then grabbed a paper knife off a desk and stabbed his attacker in the finger.
At this point, the Indian let go of the Pakistani boy and then M M’s two colleagues noticed something was going on. “M M came back and tried to take the blade from me. I told him I would cut him again if he touched me,” the boy said.
On the journey home with his father on October 20 last year, the boy said it was not the first time that the man had tried to touch him.
His father, R A, 39, said he took his son with him to the office with him on Mondays because his mother was away on business. “On that day he was angry as we were heading home and he asked me to beat M M because he does bad things. I asked him to explain, so he told me,” the father said.
The next day the father went to the office and checked the cameras and found evidence supporting his son’s claims.
“I saw him on camera touching my son when no one was looking. When I showed him the recordings, he was stunned because he did not know there was a camera,” the father said.
The Indian insisted he was only playing with the boy. “But I told him this was not considered play when you touch a boy like that, it’s called molestation,” R A said.
The court ruled that he deliberately touched the Pakistani boy sexually and sentenced him to six months in prison.
He will be deported after completing his jail term.
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