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Filipino charged with molesting 12-year-old girl in Dubai

04:47 PM October 04, 2017

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A Filipino man working as a security guard in Dubai has been accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl living in his shared apartment.

According to a Khaleej Times report, the girl is his roommate’s daughter, who said she woke up at around 3:30 a.m. when she felt someone groping her.

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The girl’s mother was present at the apartment earlier in the night. Both mother and daughter said the accused arrived home drunk and with friends.

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After she put her daughter to bed at 1 a.m., “I was working in the kitchen till 3:00 a.m., when I told the flat owner to check on my daughter as I felt the defendant’s friends had left,” the woman said in the report.

When the flat owner saw the man touching the girl, she pushed him out of the room.

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The incident was reported to the police and the 37-year-old man is facing trial.  Niña V. Guno /ra

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