Tutor who molested girl in Dubai has appeal thrown out

Bangladeshi lost his appeal against a three-month prison sentence for sexually assaulting the young girl he was teaching the Quran.

DUBAI // A private tutor who molested a young female student several times lost his appeal against a three-month prison term.

Dubai Court of Appeal upheld the ruling of a lower court issued in March against Bangladeshi M M, 36, for sexually assaulting a girl while teaching her Quran at her family’s home.

Records stated that M M was hired by the girl’s family to teach her two times a week.

The girl’s 35-year-old American mother, R S, told prosecutors: “He came Fridays and Saturdays and on October 25 last year at midday I heard my daughter screaming ‘don’t’, so I went to check on her and found her standing near the wall looking very scared.”

She added that when the defendant left the room, she asked her daughter what had happened. “She told me he had been touching her inappropriately for over a month,” the mother testified.

She told the tutor not to return to her house before calling police.

He was arrested on October 29 last year and referred to Dubai Criminal Court, which convicted him of the charge and sent him to jail for three months to be followed by deportation.

He appealed the verdict and lost.