The Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced the defendant to prison on charges of child trafficking.
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A Dubai court on Sunday jailed an Ethiopian woman for attempting to sell her two-week-old daughter for AED10,000, Gulf News reported.
The woman, a maid, moved to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2013 and started working for an Emirati man in 2017. Her employer locked her in a flat later and had consensual sex with her.
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He then presented her AED5,000 and told her to leave. A friend of the woman prevailed on her to sell the baby after she got pregnant. Police claimed to have nabbed both after receiving a tip-off.
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The aforementioned court sentenced the maid's friend to three months in prison for abetting the crime. Both women, who had pleaded not guilty, will be deported.
This story originally appeared in Gulf News.
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