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Boy Raped and Killed in Mosque Toilet, One Held
(Amira Agarib)
1 December 2009
DUBAI — A man who allegedly raped and murdered a six-year-old boy in the
bathroom of a mosque in Dubai has been arrested. A Dubai Police source said the
operations room received information that a Pakistani child was found dead in
the bathroom of a mosque located in
Al Qusais on Friday.
When the police reached the mosque, a man told them that he had come to the
mosque for Duhr prayers and that when he went to the bathroom to prepare for
it, he saw traces of blood on the floor after which he saw the child behind the
door. The boy’s pants had been removed.
The police, upon entering the bathroom, noticed that the child had been raped.
They took the body to the General Department of Forensic Medicine and launched
an investigation. Later, a Bahraini national was arrested on the suspicion of
committing the crime.
He confessed to the crime during interrogation. He said he consumed alcohol
late into the night on Thursday and went to the mosque to perform Eid prayers
on Friday and returned home. He continued drinking alcohol and later went out
to visit his friend to celebrate the festival.
Around 9.30am, he left his friend’s house and went to the mosque. He
saw three
children on the street, who asked him for Eid gifts.
The man told the police that he saw a boy, whose age he guessed to be around
nine. He told the boy that he had no money on him but he would give money if
the latter followed him.
He then took the boy to the bathroom in the mosque, locked the door and raped
him during which he covered the boy’s nose and mouth with his hands to prevent
him from screaming.
He later noticed that the child had stopped moving, so he left him there and
fled the scene. He returned home and had a shower.
The suspect told the police that he did not know the boy and that day was the
first time he had seen him. He also confessed that it was not the first time he
had had forcible sex with males.
little prince-Sanjay N Lulla
