DUBAI // A man who molested a 12-year-old girl who was on her way to buy bread has been sentenced to three months in jail.
On November 22 last year, the Syrian and her sister were sent by her father to a supermarket in Naif.
“Minutes later we heard our daughters scream, we looked from the window and saw them running away from a man,” the father said.
“One of our daughters said she was assaulted and took us to the back of the building where the defendant was,” said the 37-year-old, who restrained the Pakistani until police arrived.
The defendant confessed to a charge of sexual assault during interrogations, but denied it in Dubai Criminal Court last January.
He will be deported after serving his jail term.
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