DUBAI // A pregnant teenager who is unsure who the father of her baby will be deported.
RW, a 15-year-old from the US, admitted to having a sexual relationship with two teenagers - LT, a 17-year-old from Jordan, and KK, a 19-year-old university student from Syria.
She said she had met LT on Facebook before arriving in the UAE at the end of August last year. He introduced her to his friend, KK, in November. She confessed to having sex with KK twice - once in the staircase of her apartment building and once in the apartment of a friend in Sharjah.
The girl said that she was under the influence of alcohol at the time and did not realise what was happening to her. She also admitted to having sex with LT, but denied being paid by either of them.
RW visited the Iranian Hospital on December 19 last year complaining of abdominal pain. There she was told she was eight weeks pregnant.
"I knew I was pregnant, I was having the symptoms and had done the home test which came back positive," she told prosecutors.
She said that when the hospital confirmed her suspicions, she could not determine which one of the two teenagers was the father.
LT said he had known the girl for about a year and had sex with her consent. He said he did not know she was pregnant until three days before he was arrested. KK denied having sex with her, saying they had only kissed in his car.
The girl and LT were both sentenced to deportation by the Juvenile Court, while KK was sentenced to two months in prison by the Court of Misdemeanours. He will be deported after serving his jail term.
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Armies of Sand
By Kenneth Pollack (Oxford University Press)
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hall of shame
SUNDERLAND 2002-03
No one has ended a Premier League season quite like Sunderland. They lost each of their final 15 games, taking no points after January. They ended up with 19 in total, sacking managers Peter Reid and Howard Wilkinson and losing 3-1 to Charlton when they scored three own goals in eight minutes.
SUNDERLAND 2005-06
Until Derby came along, Sunderland’s total of 15 points was the Premier League’s record low. They made it until May and their final home game before winning at the Stadium of Light while they lost a joint record 29 of their 38 league games.
HUDDERSFIELD 2018-19
Joined Derby as the only team to be relegated in March. No striker scored until January, while only two players got more assists than goalkeeper Jonas Lossl. The mid-season appointment Jan Siewert was to end his time as Huddersfield manager with a 5.3 per cent win rate.
ASTON VILLA 2015-16
Perhaps the most inexplicably bad season, considering they signed Idrissa Gueye and Adama Traore and still only got 17 points. Villa won their first league game, but none of the next 19. They ended an abominable campaign by taking one point from the last 39 available.
FULHAM 2018-19
Terrible in different ways. Fulham’s total of 26 points is not among the lowest ever but they contrived to get relegated after spending over £100 million (Dh457m) in the transfer market. Much of it went on defenders but they only kept two clean sheets in their first 33 games.
LA LIGA: Sporting Gijon, 13 points in 1997-98.
BUNDESLIGA: Tasmania Berlin, 10 points in 1965-66
