Housemaid acquitted in children’s death case

Amir Al Sunni, Staff Reporter

The Fujairah Criminal Court acquitted a housemaid of the charge of causing the death of two children for negligence.

The maid was arrested after a fire broke out in her sponsor’s house in Fujairah when the children, three and four years old, were inside their room at the house with their grandmother and the parents were at work.

Firefighters rushed to the spot and quelled the fire in the room, but the two children died.

In a separate case, the Supreme Federal Court rejected an appeal against a verdict that obligated a car insurance company to pay Dhs203,000 to a car rental lady.  The woman rented a car to a person who fled out of the country with the car.

The case details date back to when the lady filed a lawsuit against the insurance company demanding to pay Dhs226,000 for the car the man fled with, saying the car was fully insured against damage, loss and civil liability by the company.

The Court of First Instance tasked an expert and, based on his report, the company was obligated to pay Dhs203,850 to the woman, but the company appealed saying the complainant did not notify it of the incident.

The Appellate Court upheld the verdict but the company appealed again to the Court of Cassation.

The company pointed out more than three years have passed since the date of the incident and that it was not informed about it, which violates the terms of the insurance policy.

An earlier report said the Fujairah Criminal Court sentenced 4 Asians including a girl in her twenties to 3 years in jail and fined them Dhs5,000 on charges of human trafficking and use of force.

According to the official records, the girl was brought from her home country by one of the other defendants who cheated her by promising her to work as a waitress in a restaurant against Dhs2,000 per month. When the girl came to the UAE, the defendant took her to an apartment in which the other defendants were staying and handed her over to the third defendant for Dhs5,000.

Together with other peers, the girl waited for the job, which the first defendant promised to offer but discovered later that she was living in a brothel.