DUBAI: Dubai police assisted a young Asian woman after she jumped from a balcony to escape being raped, reported a local Arabic daily.
According to the report, Dubai Police received a tip-off that a woman had jumped from the balcony of a flat to escape rape, which left her seriously injured.
Lt. Col. Rashid bin Dhaboi, Director of the Criminal Oversight section at Dubai Police’s General Department of Criminal Investigation, who is also in charge of the communications programme, said that the problem was that the victim had been in a relationship with the man in the past. Only she was dealing with him as her father and she used to visit his flat to support him.
He said the girl chose death and jumped from the balcony after she felt that she would not be able to escape him.
He said she pretended to accept his offer to go out for dinner and when he let her go to another room to change, she took her chance and jumped from the second floor.
The girl sustained fractures in her neck and right arm, and was taken to hospital, while the accused was arrested.
He said the girl was under shock for a while and members of the team were in touch with the victim, visiting her and supporting her.
