Incident occurred in a Dubai building after she refused to work as a prostitute
Dubai: A maid was pushed out of a 12th floor window for refusing to be a prostitute, a court heard on Tuesday.
The 25-year-old Bangladeshi maid was said to have been kidnapped from in front of her sponsor’s villa in Ajman and told she had to work in prostitution. A couple are accused of confining her in the flat in Dubai’s Al Nahda area for two weeks.
According to her prosecution statement the maid, H.A., refused to work in prostitution and an unidentified woman pushed her from the 12th floor following two weeks in confinement.
“The woman beat me while we fought because I refused to work in the sex industry. I was standing beside the window and crying when she came from behind and pushed me… as soon as I fell out I clung to electric wire and plastic cables. I banged down on the pavement and woke up in hospital,” H.A. testified to prosecutors.
The incident happened in June 2013.
Prosecutors accused a 41-year-old Bangladeshi electrician, M.Y., and the unidentified woman (who remains at large) of unlawfully confining the maid in the flat.
‘Crying in pain’
M.Y. failed to appear before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Tuesday as he was scheduled to be prosecuted for confining H.A.
Medical reports confirmed that the maid sustained fractured legs and a broken jaw.
“I arrived in Ajman early last year and worked for an Emirati sponsor. One day my colleague and I went out to throw out the garbage… a car came suddenly and two men kidnapped us. They took us to the flat and locked us up there. A woman named Roba, who lived in the flat, wanted to force me to work in prostitution. I refused. They kept me confined for nearly two weeks. Roba constantly monitored me and prevented me from going out… I only ate and slept. I could not abscond because the door was always locked and I did not have a phone. On the day of the incident, Roba pushed me from the 12th floor,” the maid claimed.
The Bangladeshi woman said in her statement that Roba wanted to get rid of her because she refused to work in the sex industry.
The building’s Indian watchman testified to prosecutors that a Filipina neighbour warned him that a woman (H.A.) was crying on the pavement.
“She was crying in pain and bleeding profusely from her mouth. She did not live in the building and I had never seen her before. The surveillance cameras showed M.H. and a woman leaving the building ten minutes before the incident,” said the watchman. Prosecution records did not identify the nationality or name of the unidentified woman but the maid identified her as Roba.
Presiding judge Mohammad Jamal adjourned the case until March 11.
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