DUBAI // A retired police officer who raped a colleague’s 13-year-old daughter has been sentenced to five years in jail.
Police were tipped off about the 55-year-old, who holds a Comoros Islands passport, and arrested him with the girl in his car in Al Rafaa on August 11 last year.
“We kept him under observation and made the arrest when he met the girl and her brothers,” an Emirati officer told Dubai Criminal Court.
The defendant befriended the three siblings while they were fishing and told them he used to work with their father at Dubai police before he retired.
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He won their trust by buying them presents and food and would regularly meet up with them.
The victim said he would give her brothers money and send them off to buy food and while they were gone he would abuse her sexually.
“I was afraid to tell my mother,” the girl said.
Officers said they found several images of naked women on the man’s phone. They also found alcohol in his car.
A medical examination showed the girl had been raped and traces of her DNA were found on the defendant’s body and in his car. He denied a rape charge in court last December.
He will be deported after serving his prison term.
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