Visitor gets 15 years in jail for kidnap and rape of schoolgirl (Man threatened to chop her body into pieces if she told anyone)

A Pakistani visitor faces 15 years in jail for kidnapping an eight-year-old schoolgirl and raping her even as she clutched the Quran in fear.

The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the 21-year-old Pakistani, M.R., of kidnapping the Bangladeshi schoolgirl and threatening to chop her body into pieces if she told anyone that he raped her.

"The accused will be deported after the completion of his jail term," said Presiding Judge Hamad Abdul Latif Abdul Jawad in courtroom four.

"I carry signs of electric shock on my back… the police electrocuted me and coerced me to confess that I kidnapped the girl and raped her. Sir, you can see the torture signs on my back. I am not guilty. The girl is the one who asked me to give her a lift," argued the convict when he defended himself in court.

His lawyer told the court that her client did not commit the crime. The advocate asked the court to dismiss the girl's statement "because she is very young".

According to the chargesheet, M.R. lured the girl into his car while she waited with her friends in front of a Quran learning centre. The defendant deceived the girl to join him after promising to pay her Dh10 and claiming that he wanted to buy juice to distribute to the rest of the students, according to records. Prosecutors charged him with raping the girl while she cried and held on to the Holy Book in fear. He was also arraigned with threatening to kill her and chopping her body to pieces if she cried and did not comply with his demands.

‘Begged him'

"My friends and I were waiting in front of the centre… he stopped in front of us and offered to buy us juice. He drove off then stopped in a building's parking lot and moved back to the rear seat where I was. He slapped me when I rejected to undress. He beat and threatened me and then abused me after he undressed me… I cried and begged him to leave me," said eight-year-old N.K. who informed her parents about what happened.

Records said M.R. dropped her in front of the centre and she walked back home. Her friends had already informed her father that N.K. was kidnapped and the father and the police were searching for her, according to records.

Two policemen testified that primary interrogations led to the arrest of M.R.., who N.K. identified in a police lineup.

The primary judgment remains subject to appeal within 15 days.