DUBAI // A security guard has been jailed for molesting a girl, 16, on the roof of her building.
The Bangladeshi guard, 35, told judges he met the girl by coincidence on the roof and asked her what she was doing up there alone. He said he did not molest her and denied sexual assault.
On December 9 last year, the guard touched the girl’s breast against her will as she tried to leave the roof of the building in the Raffa area of Bur Dubai.
“I went for some air after I was done with my exercising,” the Filipina schoolgirl said. “Minutes later he came and asked me what I was doing. I told him and then tried to get away but he blocked my way and touched me.
“When I got to our apartment, my father noticed I was scared and asked me about it so I told him and he called police.”
Her father, 42, said his daughter told him in detail what had happened.
Dubai Criminal Court sentenced the guard to three months in jail. He will be deported after completing his jail term.
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