DUBAI // A Bangladeshi man, MM, 36, who was hired as a private tutor to teach a young girl Quran is accused at Dubai Criminal Court of molesting her at her home.

He was not present in court to enter a plea against a charge of sexual assault.

The girl’s 35-year-old American mother, RS, said: “He comes Fridays and Saturdays and, on October 25 last year, I heard my daughter screaming ‘don’t’ so I went to check on her and found her standing near the wall with fear all over her face.”

When the tutor left, the mother asked what had happened.

“She told me that he had been touching her inappropriately for over a month,” the mother said.

The man was arrested four days later.

The next hearing is on February 9.

salamir@thenational.ae