Allegedly bought a 13-year-old girl from her mother for money and forced her to work as a prostitute.

Dubai Prosecution referred four Arab nationals to the Dubai Courts on charges of human trafficking, after they allegedly bought a 13-year-old girl from her mother for money and forced her to work as a prostitute. The public prosecutor accused three of the suspects, two men and a woman, of buying the teenage girl from an Arabic country and bringing her to the UAE under a fake passport, pretending that one of the men and the woman were the parents of the girl, while the fourth suspect was accused of failing to report the crime to authorities. The victim, identified as Z.A., testified that since she entered the country, the suspects forced her to have sex with men for Dh2,000 and Dh3,000 per night. Following information about the crime in January, the suspects were arrested in collaboration with the Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) and Sharjah Police. They were seized at Sharjah International Airport while trying to take the girl to a neighbouring country. Khalifa Rashid Bin Deemas, Head of Attorney Generals Technical Office said that the girl was referred to Dubai Foundation for Women and Children as per the directions of Attorney General Essam Eisa Al Humaidan.