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Two go on trial after teenager is sexually assaulted, dumped semi-naked on roadside

A teenage girl befriended two men in a Dubai hotel and accompanied them to a party, only to wake up in hospital the next morning to discover she had been sexually assaulted, a court was told.

Two men went on trial at Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday charged with the attack. One of the defendants, a 23-year-old Emirati, is charged with raping the 19-year-old French girl, while the second defendant, a 34-year-old Emirati singer, stands accused of sexual molestation.

Court records show the victim met the two defendants at a hotel in JBR in Dubai last July, and went with them to a party. The young woman admitted she was drinking at the party and then passed out.

“They asked me to join them at a party and I agreed. I drank alcohol and then I fell unconscious,” the young woman stated in official records. “I woke up in hospital and they told me that I had been raped.”

An Emirati man, who was jogging in Al Barsha at 6.30am, discovered the teenager on the ground near a construction site. Only the top half of her body was covered. He said: “She was breathing so I returned home and brought my wife with a bed sheet to cover the girl’s body as she was semi-naked.”

The 45-year-old witness added that he then called Dubai Police. Police launched an investigation and arrested the two defendants. The first defendant confessed during investigation that he had sex with the victim, but argued it was consensual.

“He claimed he then took her to a party, where she drank a lot of alcohol and started dancing naked and smashing things in the villa. He claimed that they tried to wake her up, but she refused so they put some clothes on her and threw her outside,” an Emirati policeman said in official records.

DNA test shows that the 23-year-old defendant had raped the victim. Both defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges and the trial was adjourned until later this month to prepare the defence.

ali.shouk@7days.ae

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