Deserted woman, child sent home after 3 years

dubai — After three years of poverty-stricken life in Dubai, an Asian woman and her four-yearold child, who were left by the woman’s husband, managed to return to their home country, thanks to the Dubai Police.

Brigadier Dr Mohammed Murr, Director of the General Department of Human Rights at the Dubai Police, said the woman’s husband left her and their oneyear-old baby in 2013, without leaving any support for them. “After some family issues erupted between them, the man left the house and then the country, after switching his mobile phone off. She was living illegally without any source of income.”

She was seeking support from people to survive, he said, adding that the woman was afraid to approach the authorities as she was staying in the country in violation of residency laws.

A number of charities and a few people helped her to survive. However, it was nearly impossible for her to survive merely upon others’ support and debt was getting accumulated everyday. Finally, she resorted to the Women and Child Protection Department and told the department about her crisis. “She was worried that she couldn’t help the child attend a school. She wanted to go back to her home country,” Brigadier Murr said.

Col. Abu Baker Al Jasmai, director of the Women and Child Protection Department, said that the woman approached the department after accumulation of financial dues such as rent and other debts.

He said that the department was able to coordinate with the consulate of the woman’s country in Dubai and the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs to solve her problem. “With a joint effort, necessary action was taken to return the woman and her child to their homeland,” he added.

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