UAE BARQ برق الإمارات – نبضك
Dubai Police on Thursday shared fresh details of the case of a boy who had been found alone in a mall last week.
The Asian mother, after giving birth to the boy, left him in the care of another woman of the same nationality, and left the country never to return, the police said.
Brigadier Ali Ghanem, Director of Al Muraqqabat Police Station, said that the police received a call within 90 minutes of them sharing the details of the boy on social media.
The caller said that he knew the boy and had seen him with a woman living in Sharjah.
The Dubai Police, in cooperation with Sharjah Police, arrested the woman, who then told them that the boy was not her son, and she had been asked by his mother to take care of him five years ago.
The mother never returned after leaving the country, the woman added, and said she didn’t have any contact details of any friends or family members of the mother.
She had been taking care of the child for five years without telling the authorities, hoping that the mother would return.
However, the financial pressure of the boy’s care and education took a toll on her, and she sought help from one of her friends, who advised her to give the child to another woman.
The other woman, who lived in Al Muteena area, took care of the child for a period of time, but then wanted to give him up. She, too, asked a friend of hers, and this friend came up with the idea of surrendering the boy to the police after saying he was found lost in a mall.
Brigadier Ghanem said the police took blood samples of the four women for a DNA test, and found that none of them was the boy’s mother.
Khaleej Times
