Kix

3 years and deportation?

What's your thoughts on this, from what I see of it, I reckon she is young (22), destitute and thought (naively) that junior would have a better life with an Emirati family.

National.

All very sad, should she have been offered compassion? Or does the punishment fit the crime of human trafficking and prostitution (although the latter charge is not expanded upon).

3 years followed by deportation (and she'll have to buy her own ticket to get back or she'll stay in jail until she does).

Blue Cat

so she could be in jail for the rest of her life, how sad. How sad to have to sell your own child in the first place.

OleJanx

All to often the Dubai dream turns to hydrochloric acid and starts to eat away at you. The Chinese have a saying "All dreams die of size." I sometimes think that is true of Dubai too - Abu Dhabi always strikes me as being a bit more uptight and "proper", whatever that might translate to. Less flamboyant, perhaps?

scrubbedexpat141

Quite tragic that it becomes the only option you think you have.

OleJanx

And to think the Emirates considers itself to have a legal system the equal of Europe...

scrubbedexpat141

It's just tragic from all angles.

That she can't afford a flight home and has nobody to help her.
That she felt the only option was to sell her baby.
That she got deserted by the father when he knew shit would hit the fan.
That she gets jailtime and deported only when she can pay for it (no time soon).

Maxima

Given that such minor crimes are punished so severely, one can at least rest knowing that more violent crimes such as kidnapping and raping women would get a much larger sentence

OleJanx

Yes, being an utter twunt with an oversized ego and libido equiped with a Hummer and a sense of privilage. Fabntastic! How long do you think the stupid twunts would last in the isolation ward? What's that? 45 minutes? Hmmm.....

Blue Cat

and she won't be a one off case there will be others like her

Boomhauer

She is being punished for being poor .