The court was told that he had sex with the Emirati teenager a number of times at a rented flat. The defendant claims the sex was consensual and that the girl had told him she was 18.
However, under UAE law an adult having sex with anyone under the age of 14 is considered rape.
According to official records, Dubai Police received a call in April from the parents of the 13-year-old girl saying their daughter was missing. The mother gave the police the telephone number of a man who the parents claim had beenn chatting with their daughter before she disappeared.
Police contacted the man, who said that he had taken her out but had done nothing inappropriate and dropped her off at Mall of the Emirates. Police checked CCTV footage from the mall and saw him dropping the teen at the mall.
However, they then spotted the girl meeting the defendant before leaving in his car. They traced the defendant via his licence plate and brought him to the police station.
He told them that he had taken the girl back to his flat in Sharjah.
“He claimed that she told him that she was 18 years old and she agreed to have sex with him. She was still at the flat so we went there and took her home,” a policeman said.
The teen said the defendant took her out for dinner and after they went to Sharjah they had sex three times in the flat over two days.
The defendant denies rape and the trial has been adjourned to prepare the defence.
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