DUBAI // A teenager has admitted to groping an air hostess as she sunbathed on the beach.
The Afghan youth, 19, touched the Belgian woman’s thigh before touching her bottom and breast, he told Dubai Criminal Court on Wednesday.
The incident happened on May 8, prosecutors said. The air hostess, M A, 29, said she was at Al Mamzar beach when two men sat near her.
“One of them sat next to me and the other remained standing,” she said. “The one who sat down said hello to me and I told him that I wasn’t interested in talking to him, then got up and left him but he touched my thigh.”
She said she walked away and sat near an Arab family on the beach, but the two men followed her and again the same man molested her, touching her bottom and breast.
The woman reported the incident and a police patrol apprehended the two men.
The Afghan youth was charged with molestation and confessed. A verdict is due on September 14.
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