A woman is accused of beating her stepdaughter to death because the girl reminded her of her husband’s ex-wife.
Dubai Court of First Instance was told the Jordanian had previously
forced the four-year-old she said was “dad’s favourite” to eat her own
vomit.
The 24-year-old housewife is accused of assault causing death following an incident in January. The girl’s biological mother received a call from her ex-husband to rush to hospital after, he said, their little girl Maya had fallen from her bicycle and hit her head on a wall.
“I rushed to the hospital but Maya was gone already,” said the 36-year-old Jordanian in court records. “I accused the defendant of killing my daughter when I saw signs of violence on my baby’s body. My daughters, who were staying with their father, are always telling me about the assaults on them by the stepmother.”
A 24-year-old Ethiopian housemaid, who worked for the family in the flat in Muraqabbat for four years, claimed she quit her job two months after the stepmum arrived because of the ill treatment she saw being dished out.
“She was treating the girls badly and assaulting them and even biting the little girl,” she testified. “She used to put food for them on the floor and forced them to eat it.
“Sometimes she forced the little girl to eat a large amount of food quickly until the little girl vomited, then she forced her to eat the vomit. She was always saying that she hated her because she looked like her real mother.”
The housemaid said the girls’ father knew the stepmother had been mistreating his daughters and had sent her back to Jordan for a while. But the husband brought her back to Dubai when he discovered she was pregnant with his fourth child, the court was told.
A medical report showed Maya’s death was caused by an assault, which resulted in bleeding inside her head and stomach. The defendant denies causing the child’s death. The trial has been adjourned and the Jordanian remains in police custody.
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| Dubai Court of First Instance was told the Jordanian forced the four-year-old she said was “dad’s favourite” to eat her own vomit |
The 24-year-old housewife is accused of assault causing death following an incident in January. The girl’s biological mother received a call from her ex-husband to rush to hospital after, he said, their little girl Maya had fallen from her bicycle and hit her head on a wall.
“I rushed to the hospital but Maya was gone already,” said the 36-year-old Jordanian in court records. “I accused the defendant of killing my daughter when I saw signs of violence on my baby’s body. My daughters, who were staying with their father, are always telling me about the assaults on them by the stepmother.”
A 24-year-old Ethiopian housemaid, who worked for the family in the flat in Muraqabbat for four years, claimed she quit her job two months after the stepmum arrived because of the ill treatment she saw being dished out.
“She was treating the girls badly and assaulting them and even biting the little girl,” she testified. “She used to put food for them on the floor and forced them to eat it.
“Sometimes she forced the little girl to eat a large amount of food quickly until the little girl vomited, then she forced her to eat the vomit. She was always saying that she hated her because she looked like her real mother.”
The housemaid said the girls’ father knew the stepmother had been mistreating his daughters and had sent her back to Jordan for a while. But the husband brought her back to Dubai when he discovered she was pregnant with his fourth child, the court was told.
A medical report showed Maya’s death was caused by an assault, which resulted in bleeding inside her head and stomach. The defendant denies causing the child’s death. The trial has been adjourned and the Jordanian remains in police custody.
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