UAE cop faces court for allegedly raping Pinay

A United Arab Emirates policeman faced a Dubai court last week over charges he lured a Filipina into his car and raped her last September.
 
The Filipina said the policeman, 28, stopped her and asked for her personal identification. She said he drove to an uninhabited villa and raped her, Gulf News reported.
 
But the policeman, who was arrested in October for a separate case, pleaded not guilty and belied the accusations against him.
 
“That is absolutely not true… I did not do that,” he pleaded before presiding judge Ezzat Abdul Lat at the Dubai Court of First Instance Thursday.
 
He also asked the court for bail, but the judge asked him to have his lawyer lodge an official request.
 
Prosecutors said the suspect beat the woman and then raped her - and carried out law enforcement procedures when he was not authorized to do so since he was off duty at the time.
 
At the trial, a police officer testified that the Filipina claimed the suspect asked her for identification when he stopped her on the street.
 
The police officer said the Filipina recalled the suspect stopped her on the street and asked her to show her personal identification papers.
 
She said she trusted the policeman and rode with him in his car, but he drove to the villa where the woman claimed he became violent and raped her.
 
Forensic examination by the Dubai police showed traces of DNA and semen on the woman’s body and clothes, which matched those of the defendant.
 
Meanwhile, the suspect was sentenced by the Dubai Misdemeanors Court to three months in jail for threatening, cursing and offending another woman and disrespecting her in public. — Joel Locsin/RSJ, GMA News

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