UAE court upholds jail term for man who kidnapped, raped Pinay
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) appellate court on Thursday upheld the one-year jail term of a 32-year-old man who was found guilty of raping a Filipina and impersonating a police officer in January 2012.
The Court of First Instance had found the Emirati man guilty of kidnap, sexual assault and impersonation last January, according to a report on Khaleej Times.
The prosecution records showed the man had approached the Filipina and introduced himself as a police officer.
He also told her he would take her into custody for wearing indecent clothes.
The man had met the Filipina at the building in Al Qusais, where she lived with her Filipino boyfriend on the ninth floor.
The investigation showed that he posed as a police officer and exchanged his mobile number with the woman before taking her alone in his car.
He drove to the underground parking of another building where he raped her. The Filipina, 30, said the man fooled her by saying he was taking her to the police station that day.
At the parking lot, the man told her to move to the back seat and get undressed. Scared and confused, she complied.
The complainant’s roommate, a 29-year-old Filipina secretary, said the complainant eventually told her about the incident.
For his part, the complainant's boyfriend said the defendant saw them in the corridor and asked them whether they were married.
The defendant then told the woman, who was wearing a short skirt at the time, that she was not allowed to dress like that in the UAE.
He even asked for the boyfriend's labor card, checked it and then asked him to wait outside the building. The boyfriend later learned his girlfriend was assaulted. - VVP, GMA News
The Court of First Instance had found the Emirati man guilty of kidnap, sexual assault and impersonation last January, according to a report on Khaleej Times.
The prosecution records showed the man had approached the Filipina and introduced himself as a police officer.
He also told her he would take her into custody for wearing indecent clothes.
The man had met the Filipina at the building in Al Qusais, where she lived with her Filipino boyfriend on the ninth floor.
The investigation showed that he posed as a police officer and exchanged his mobile number with the woman before taking her alone in his car.
He drove to the underground parking of another building where he raped her. The Filipina, 30, said the man fooled her by saying he was taking her to the police station that day.
At the parking lot, the man told her to move to the back seat and get undressed. Scared and confused, she complied.
The complainant’s roommate, a 29-year-old Filipina secretary, said the complainant eventually told her about the incident.
For his part, the complainant's boyfriend said the defendant saw them in the corridor and asked them whether they were married.
The defendant then told the woman, who was wearing a short skirt at the time, that she was not allowed to dress like that in the UAE.
He even asked for the boyfriend's labor card, checked it and then asked him to wait outside the building. The boyfriend later learned his girlfriend was assaulted. - VVP, GMA News
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