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Farmer caged for abusing friend’s son

- BY HAMZA M. SENGENDO

DUBAI: A farmer who snuck inside the bedroom of his friend’s son and ABUSED HIM At irst SIGHT must spend three years behind bars, a jury ruled on Wednesday.

The Asian farmer, 26, had been invited to the friend’s villa to help trim children’s hair. He abused the Egyptian schoolboy, 15, at the villa in Mizhar in Dec.2016 and abused him on six occasions in 2017.

The boy experience­d psychologi­cal turmoil. His worried Egyptian father, 57, in trying to know what was deranging him took him to a mental hospital where he was subjected to six months of sessions.

THE Boy on FEB.4 DISCLOSED THE plight to a psychiatri­st. The farmer was intercepte­d on Mar.22 by personnel from the General Directorat­e of Residency and Foreigners AFFAIRS As HE TRIED to LEE ABROAD.

In court, he denied the charge and claimed he was in his homeland during that period. He presented a waiver from the boy’s father. Prosecutor­s demanded a tough penalty. He will be deported after the term. In prosecutio­n records, the boy, his sister, and brother lost their mother. They stayed in the villa in Mizhar with their father (a senior farmer) and his second wife who has a daughter aged 4 From HIM.

In December 2016 the father brought his workmate (the defendant) to help shave and trim the boy’s hair and that of his little sister and brother. Meanwhile, the father and his wife walked out and went their way.

The boy was inside a room sitting on a bed when the defendant entered and sat beside him. He engaged him a discussion and asked about his educationa­l affairs. He suddenly wound his arms around him.

He molested him. The boy struggled and failed to free himself from the grip of the defendant, who then stripped, abused HIM AND LED BEFORE THE FATHER Could return. He later returned to abuse him again.

Whenever, the father called him to trim the boy’s hair and that of the siblings, he would sneak into his bedroom and forcibly assault him –even when the father and his wife were present in the villa.

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