The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a water vendor, who holds the nationality of an Asian country, to three months and then deportation for having sexually compromised a 14-year-old girl when he broke into her family's apartment under the pretext of putting a bottle of water in the kitchen, telling her that her father had not paid the price. He is willing to overlook it in return for a kiss. The Dubai Public Prosecutor directed him to commit a felony of indecent assault, exploiting her weakness, his solitude, and sensing her hand and kissing her.

The victim (from an Asian country) said that she was in her family's home alone on the afternoon of August 14, I heard the doorbell, and when she opened I saw the person who is always delivering water to their house, and when he entered, insisted on putting one of the bottles of water in her refrigerator, Then he asked her for a glass of water, so I brought her to him, and I was surprised by him holding her hand and kissing her.

She added that he tried to feel her hand again, and he looked at her in a suspicious manner, so she was afraid of him and yelled at him until he left the apartment. He kissed him, so she screamed again until he left the apartment, then she called her mother and told her about the incident.

The defendant acknowledged in the police evidence and the investigation of the Public Prosecution that he kissed the victim's hand, wiped her cheek, offered her 100 dirhams, but refused, and he also requested her phone number to communicate with her.

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