Dubai police uncovered the circumstances of the "lost child", a 5-year-old Asian, who a woman claimed to have found at Al Reef Mall and handed him over to Al Muraqqabat police station. She left him with a woman who had cared for him at that time until he was physically stumbled and deposited him with a third woman.

The director of Al Muraqqabat police station, Brigadier Ali Ghanem, said that a woman came to the center with the child, claiming that she found him lost near Al Reef Mall and decided to bring him to the center after noticing that he had been alone for a long time.

He added that a team has been formed to research and investigate the identity of the child and the identity of his parents and appealed to members of the public to help us identify the "lost child" by posting his personal image in social networks and various media. In Sharjah, she was arrested in coordination with the Sharjah Police.

Ghanem pointed out that the woman reported that the child is not her son but belongs to another with the same nationality born 5 years ago, and asked her to take care of him briefly because she wants to travel to her homeland and return quickly, but she did not return again, pointing out that she does not know any address to communicate with her At home, or her phone number, or a way to communicate with her relatives and relatives, which prompted her to embrace the child and raise him in the hope of her return but did not.

He explained that the woman acknowledged that she kept the child for 5 years without informing the competent authorities, until she reached a stage that she could no longer hold because of her financial inability to provide his personal requirements, especially his need for education and health care, which led her to consult a friend about how to act. The latter advised him to give it to another woman to raise him.

The woman stated that she handed him over to another in Al Muteena area, within the jurisdiction of the police station, his last branch for a short period and then decided to get rid of him.

DNA Testing

Ghanem said Dubai police had subjected the four women involved in the case, "who kept the child, and their friends," to DNA testing for verification and the result was negative, and found that none of them biological mother of the child.

He confirmed that the Dubai Police had referred the child to the hospital and had all the necessary medical tests for him, and found that he is in good health, and then handed him to the Dubai Foundation for the care of women and children to provide the necessary support and care, while referring the four women involved in the case to the Dubai Public Prosecution to take action Legal rights.