Emirati student gets 10 years for raping Pinay friend in UAE

A United Arab Emirates (UAE) student was sentenced to 10 years in jail after a court found him guilty of raping his Filipina friend when she tried to comfort him. According to a report on the news site Gulf News, the Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the student of having sex with the 38-year-old Filipina against her will after she welcomed him into her kitchen. However, the Emirati student insisted that the charges against him were groundless, saying he just went to collect rent from her. The Emirati said he rented the flat to her and other Filipinas, adding that his friend borrowed Dh3,000 from him and that he only went there to collect his money. The prosecutors said the Emirati student was sharing his woes with the Filipina after breaking up with his girlfriend. He allegedly asked the Filipina to hug him but she refused. The Filipina said the Emirati was outraged when she resisted hugging him. For her part, the Filipina testified she agreed to listen to the Emirati. “He raped me despite the fact that I cried and begged him not to," the Filipina said iin the report. The victim’s roommates reportedly heard her crying for hours in the washroom and convinced her to report the incident to the police, who then arrested the student. - VVP, GMA News