A Dubai school cleaner who filmed two pupils as they changed out of their swim wear will spend three months in jail.
On March 27, the 23-year-old Nigerian defendant took a mobile phone into the school and hid in the changing rooms to film the two brothers, aged 7 and 9, as they dressed.
One of the boys saw the defendant filming them and asked him what he was doing but the man did not respond.
"It was my friend who spotted the cleaner first then alerted me. When we looked at him, the cleaner covered his mobile phone with his hands and when we asked if he had taken any pictures, he denied it and left quickly," the 9-year-old boy said.
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The Turkish boys told their teacher, who then told the school principal, about the incident. The principal called police after confronting the cleaner who denied filming the boys.
The boys’ mother said the principal told her what had happened when she picked her sons up from the school in Al Barsha the same day. She said her sons also told her what happened on the way home.
“When I went to school, the principal asked to talk to me and informed that he reported the matter to police and that I should expect a call from them,” said the mother, 43.
She said police called her the same day and asked her to give a testimony at a police station. “I told them what my kids told me,” she said.
The cleaner’s phone was confiscated and prosecutors found the video of the naked children.
During police questioning, the cleaner admitted to filming a video of the boys.
At Dubai Criminal Court this month, the defendant pleaded guilty to a sex assault charge.
On Wednesday, he was sentenced to three months in jail followed by deportation.
Ziina users can donate to relief efforts in Beirut
Ziina users will be able to use the app to help relief efforts in Beirut, which has been left reeling after an August blast caused an estimated $15 billion in damage and left thousands homeless. Ziina has partnered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to raise money for the Lebanese capital, co-founder Faisal Toukan says. “As of October 1, the UNHCR has the first certified badge on Ziina and is automatically part of user's top friends' list during this campaign. Users can now donate any amount to the Beirut relief with two clicks. The money raised will go towards rebuilding houses for the families that were impacted by the explosion.”
The rules on fostering in the UAE
A foster couple or family must:
- be Muslim, Emirati and be residing in the UAE
- not be younger than 25 years old
- not have been convicted of offences or crimes involving moral turpitude
- be free of infectious diseases or psychological and mental disorders
- have the ability to support its members and the foster child financially
- undertake to treat and raise the child in a proper manner and take care of his or her health and well-being
- A single, divorced or widowed Muslim Emirati female, residing in the UAE may apply to foster a child if she is at least 30 years old and able to support the child financially
Real estate tokenisation project
Dubai launched the pilot phase of its real estate tokenisation project last month.
The initiative focuses on converting real estate assets into digital tokens recorded on blockchain technology and helps in streamlining the process of buying, selling and investing, the Dubai Land Department said.
Dubai’s real estate tokenisation market is projected to reach Dh60 billion ($16.33 billion) by 2033, representing 7 per cent of the emirate’s total property transactions, according to the DLD.
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