Police rescue woman from abusive father

HE BEAT DAUGHTER AFTER SEEING HER WITH A MAN SHE BEFRIENDED ONLINE

Awoman sought police help after her father beat her when he saw her stepping out of the vehicle of a man whom she met on social networks.

The Arab woman was afraid of her father and approached Dubai Police seeking protection. Police provided protection to the woman and placed her in the Dubai Foundation for Women and Children shelter until they could mediate the dispute with assurances that there would be no more violence.

Fatima Al Kindi, head of the Social Support Section at the Child and Women Protection Department of Dubai Police, said the woman was living in her father’s house with his second wife and stepbrothers but she was isolated with no friends as everyone was busy with their lives.

“She start searching for friends on social networks until she met a young man. They kept chatting until he asked her to go out with him. She went out with him and he dropped her back to the house and her father saw her getting out of the car and he became angry and beat her,” Al Kindi said.

“He had never beaten her before and she was in a bad mental state and very sad. We put her in the shelter until we found a solution.”

Al Kindi said that they summoned the father.

Disciplining methods

“The father said that he was disciplining his daughter. We sat with him to convince him that physical abuse is not the solution, especially as she is in her late 30s,” Al Kindi added.

Police convinced the father to keep his daughter in the foundation for some more time until she recovered.

Al Kindi said parents should discipline their children, but not use violence. “We’ve had similar incidents recently due to wrongful use of social networks. It is a reason behind many family disputes. Parents shouldn’t use violence as solution to problems with their children,” she added.