Plastic surgeon jailed for assaulting American girl

DUBAI: The Dubai Court of Cassation upheld the Court of Appeal’s ruling to imprison a plastic surgeon for three months to be followed by deportation after serving the jail term, on charges of assaulting an American girl after performing a plastic surgery (botox) on her in his clinic.

The Dubai Criminal Court previously acquitted the suspect and the case was referred to the Appellate Court, where he was sentenced to 3 months and deportation and the Court of Cassation upheld the ruling.

Details of the case date back to August 2020, when the victim, 31, went to a plastic surgery clinic for a facial plastic surgery.

According to the victim’s testimony, the suspect assaulted her in the consultation room after the surgery, taking advantage of her bad psychological condition at that time.

The victim affirmed that she attempted to leave the room, but the suspect tried to calm her down and repeated his assault. She added she resisted him until she left the place. Then, she informed the police, that referred the suspect to the Public Prosecution. On being interrogated, the suspect confessed to the charge.

DUBAI POLICE WARN OF SOCIAL MEDIA SCAMS: The Dubai Police General Command has urged members of the public, especially who are looking for domestic helpers, to remain vigilant when using social media platforms and not to fall prey to cybercriminals and online scammers.

Al Rashidiya Police Station received 14 reports about fraudsters scamming people looking for domestic helpers during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to its Director Brigadier Saeed Hamad Bin Sulaiman Al Malik.

“The fraudsters deluded victims by promising them to bring domestic helpers into the country in return for Dhs9,000 to Dhs13,000 in recruitment and administrative fees,” Brig. Al Malik said. “They exploitedthesuspensionoflabourrecruitmentduring the COVID-19 pandemic, and took advantage of people’s need of help during the quarantine period.”

Brig. Al Malik added that those fraudsters scammed their victims for a total of Dhs87,520 since the pandemic began until February of this year. “The fraudsters claimed that they could bring domestic helpers into the country despite the temporary shutdown of the world’s airports due to COVID-19 pandemic,” he explained.

Brig. Al Malik also revealed another fraud case involving a fraudster, who offered a domestic helper to a family in order to gain their trust, so they asked him for three additional domestic helpers for a total amount of Dhs35,000. “After transferring the sum into his bank account, the fraudster began to procrastinate and ignore their calls and requests for weeks, then he disappeared,” he continued.