Unmarried woman goes into labour at Dubai police station

An unmarried woman who went into labour at a police station in Dubai will be deported with her partner.

On July 5 last year, the Dominican woman, 27, went to Bur Dubai police station after a complaint was filed claiming she had issued a bounced cheque.

While at the station the woman went into labour, so police took her to Latifa Hospital where she gave birth to a girl.

At the hospital, the woman failed to provide a marriage certificate then admitted to police that the child was born out of wedlock.

She was referred to prosecutors on charges of consensual sex outside of marriage.

Prosecutors said the woman came to the UAE in 2012 and met a Yemeni man four years later, with whom she began a relationship.

She said the man would visit her at her flat in Discovery Gardens.

The man, 30, was arrested and questioned by police. The woman said she became pregnant in November.

During police questioning, her partner denied being the father, saying he only had sex with her once, in April 2016.

A medical report confirmed that the Yemeni man was the child’s biological father.

At Dubai Court of Misdemeanours, the man told judges: “It’s not true that we had illicit sex, we were married according to a civil contract.”

The court sentenced them both to a suspended, onemonth jail term and ordered their deportation.