Wife on trial at Dubai court after absent husband finds she had child without his knowledge

A man who works abroad says he has not had sex with wife for seven years so the child is definitely not his.

DUBAI // A husband who works abroad and claims not to have had sex with his wife for eight years was surprised to find that she had given birth to a baby boy.

The man, an Indian expatriate, 48, moved to a new job in Kuwait in 2006 and left his wife and only son in the UAE.

“She started making problems so I remained away, moving from one country to another, but in 2007 she filed a divorce case in India,” the husband told Dubai Criminal Court.

Last year his friends in the UAE told him his wife had had a baby.

“She gave birth on April 22, 2010, to a boy at the Welcare hospital and registered him under my name – but we hadn’t had sex since 2006 so he couldn’t be my son,” the husband said.

He went to a police station and reported his wife, 40, a nurse.

She was charged with having consensual sex with a man other than her husband and having a child with him.

She is also accused of obtaining a false birth certificate by registering the child in her husband’s name, and with using the false certificate to obtain a residency visa and Emirates ID for her son.

The child’s father, also an Indian expatriate, was charged with having consensual sex with the nurse. They both deny the charges.

The court was told a criminal laboratory report had found that the accused were the child’s biological parents.

The next hearing is on September 23.