Maid stands trial over threat to commit suicide

dubai — A housemaid has been charged at the Dubai Court of First Instance for allegedly threatening to kill her female employer. She also threatened to commit suicide, the court heard.

The 27-year-old maid, a Madagascar national, is also accused of helping a stranger — her friend’s boyfriend — trespass into her sponsor’s residence without her employer’s approval.

The defendant also allegedly invaded the privacy of her sponsor by filming around the house with her mobile phone. She then sent the video to her parents on WhatsApp.

The case dates back to August 7. It was registered at Al Barsha police station.

The complainant, a 48-year-old Egyptian, recounted that she had asked the maid to return the mobile phone which was earlier purchased for her. “She claimed the phone was in her room, but she had hidden it in her inner wear.

When I took it from her, she brought a knife from the kitchen and threatened to kill me unless I gave back her phone.”

While at the police station later, the complainant unlocked the phone (after getting the passcode from the accused) and found the latter had filmed her children without telling her. “She shared the videos with others on WhatsApp. I also saw pictures of the accused with a man inside the house. When I confronted the defendant with the pictures, she kept silent.”

The complainant denied the defendant’s claims that she assaulted her while working for her.

During the public prosecution investigation, the maid admitted to having threatened to kill her employer and to having welcomed her friend’s boyfriend inside the residence.

She also reportedly confessed that she filmed the employer’s children and house and shared the videos on WhatsApp.