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Dubai: A court has issued an arrest order against an 18-year-old Emirati girl, who was alleged to have fled from her parents' house, to hear her statement in her alleged rape case.
The Dubai Court of First Instance issued the arrest order to the law enforcement officers to bring the girl, A.M., (by force if needed) to hear her statement after failing to do so several times.
Law enforcement officers will have to bring her in to testify after she failed to appear before the court though she has been summoned several times.
Shelter
The Public Prosecution charged 20-year-old Iraqi, W.F., and 18-year-old UAE national, S.K., and his teenage compatriot, K.M., with intimidating the girl, saying they were influential people, luring her into their car, driving off to a deserted area and gang-raping her repeatedly.
She was discovered when she took shelter in the men's washroom in a mosque in Al Warqa.
An Egyptian imam found her and allowed her to sleep for a few hours in the female prayer room before reporting the matter to police.
Charges denied
S.K. and W.F. denied their charges and pleaded innocent. The teenager has been referred to Dubai Juvenile Court.
The girl said in her statement: "I was with my friend at Al Mamzar when the 18-year-old youth phoned and asked me to meet him in Sharjah. When I refused, he bullied me saying that he is influential and could send some men who were capable of forcing me to meet him."
Suspects in car
W.F. picked the victim form Sharjah. "The two other suspects were seated in the back of the car. The car then stopped at a deserted area along Emirates Road."
The 18-year-old girl said after she was raped, she asked the suspects to drop her in Al Warqa.
A policeman who registered S.K.'s testimony said: "S.K. claimed that she asked to meet them because she had left her parents' house.
"He told me when she confessed to them that she had been arrested for sex crimes, they dropped her in Al Warqa."
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