Tailor charged with molesting 7-year-old

A tailor told a little girl that he would help her to go upstairs and reach her apartment, however he had something else on his mind as he allegedly touched her body, a court heard on Thursday. The Asian suspect AA, 40, denied molesting the 7-year-old Indian schoolgirl inside a building located on Al Qusais’s Damascus Street on Jan.10. “Even, the family and the victim quashed the charges,” AA told the Dubai Criminal Court as he sought a lenient ruling. The verdict has been deferred till April 23. He asked the victim to lead her to the stairway and kissed her cheek besides touching her body when she returned from school at around 3.00pm, according to records. The girl informed her parents that someone working in a shop in the same building had denied her access to the lift and dragged her towards the middle of stairs leading to the first floor. “He bit me on the left cheek,” she said, revealing that AA also touched her body and requested her not to tell anyone. The father, SQ, 33, testified that he took her daughter downstairs to the sewing shop and the girl identified AA, before he contacted the police,” he said. An Emirati policeman added that AA upon arrest admitted to having molested the girl. “However, I did not ask the girl because of her age,” he said. Besides, records revealed that AA had confessed to the charges during police and prosecution interrogations.