Housemaid gets 5-years jail for molesting child

Manama : A foreign housemaid was sentenced to five years in jail for molesting a child she was tasked to take care, court files revealed. The woman sexually abused the five-year-old girl and “threatened to cut her tongue if she spoke to anyone about it”. The woman confessed before the judges that she had molested the girl more than 15 times by exposing her to obscene materials. The maid’s confession came after she had initially denied the charges against her in the public prosecution’s interrogation.

The case files stated that the victim’s father filed a complaint against the woman at the police station last July.

Additionally, the girl’s aunt informed that she noticed her niece, the victim, molesting her daughter more than once.

The maid was sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Fifth High Criminal Court under provision for sexually assaulting children under the age of 14.