(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) A driver who made a 13-year-old boy touch him during the journey from school to home has been sentenced to one year in prison to be followed by deportation. He had earlier denied the charge in the Court of First Instance.
The verdict can be appealed within 15 days. The driver, a 37-year-old from Pakistan, was assigned to drive the boy from school to his home in Rafaa.
The boy, also a Pakistani, said in the investigation that he sat in the car's front passenger seat as the back door was locked.
The driver said the boy could hold the driving wheel with his right hand, before taking the boy's left hand and making him touch him. As the boy pulled his hand away, the driver asked him to do it again, but the boy remained silent and confused.
As they got near the boy's home, the driver asked the boy to click his photo with his mobile phone and offered to take him out on Friday without telling his mother.
The driver then massaged the boy's neck and shoulder and told him not to recount what had happened in the car to his mother.
The boy's mother, a 37-year-old Indian teacher, told the prosecutor that her son appeared shaken when he got back home, and she found out about the defendant's actions.
The defendant denied the charge claiming that he only put his hand on the boy's thigh to keep him quiet.
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