Even a place of worship is not safe for a woman from the assault of a man. Where communications with God should take place, the evil is at work.
A man has been accused of assaulting a woman as she prayed at a Dubai mosque.
The defendant attacked the woman after she refused to sleep with him, the Dubai Court of First Instance heard.
The attack caused her a possible permanent disability.
The 37-year-old Bangladeshi man is said to have taken the woman’s number from a nearby cafeteria and offered her a job. The 43-year-old victim, a Bangladeshi homemaker, refused the job offer. Later in the day, she received a phone call from the same person who “spoke impolitely” asking her to “hang out and sleep with him in a villa”.
“I refused and told him that I was an old woman. He insisted, so I hung up the phone,” the woman was quoted as telling prosecutors.
Two days later, the man attacked her during her afternoon prayers at a mosque and punched her repeatedly in the face, causing her major injuries in her right eye and several facial fractures. She also sustained injuries in the chest and stomach.
A police officer told prosecutors that the accused said he took the woman’s number from a nearby cafeteria after learning that she was looking for a job. The accused had said he’d been in touch with her to help her find a job. He denied assaulting her.
Medical reports showed that the victim sustained multiple facial fractures that may take up to two years to heal. Her complaints of the duality of vision may indicate a 25% permanent disability.
The defendant denied the charges against him when he appeared before the court.
A verdict will be pronounced on January 16.
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