Teenage boy assaults girl on school bus

An Emirati student is accused of threatening and physically assaulting a Pakistani girl because she did not respond to his pleas not to break up with him, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

The victim FMM, 20, student, testified before the prosecution that she had been talking over the phone with MAG, 19, for two months. She refused his offer to talk to him on a mobile he gave her and continued talking to him from her phone. Later she decided to break up the relation as he always created problems and fought with her.

MAG refused to break up and started chasing her when she left home and tried to talk to her but she ignored him.

“On December 20, 2009, at 4pm and while I was waiting for the school bus with my sister near my house in the Hor Al Anz area, MAG came and complained why I am not answering his phone calls. When I told him I do not want to talk to you and get into trouble, he angrily said today he will make me cry and beg,” the victim testified.

“The school bus arrived and my sister and I got into the bus. He also boarded the bus and started screaming at me, saying he will not leave me. He held my arm and twisted it. When the bus driver intervened, he did the same to him and asked him to move the bus. As we came close to his house I asked the driver to stop and to pull him off the bus. The bus was hindering traffic and motorists angrily asked the driver to move it. One of the motorists, who was told why the bus had stopped, pulled MAG out of the bus along with the driver,” FMM testified.

The bus driver told the school administrator who lodged a complaint with the police.

The victim’s sister AMM, 16, and the bus driver Yad Al Ghaffar Ahmad, 52, repeated the same testimony.

Abdul Kareem Gholoom, 43, driver, testified that on the request of the accused’s mother he pulled MAG off the school bus. The accused is his brother-in-law.

The accused confessed to the accusation and the court adjourned the case until November 30 for verdict.