Dubai – A housemaid has been sentenced to six months in jail for attempting to sell her newborn baby to an undercover policewoman for AED10,000.
A court in Dubai convicted the 30-year-old Ethiopian woman of human trafficking and sentenced her to prison.
A 28-year-old countrywoman, also a housemaid, was sentenced to 3 months in jail for helping the mother in her attempt to sell the baby girl.
The convicted women will be deported upon completion of their jail time, as per the Court of First Instance ruling.
The baby's father, an Emirati man who is at large, has been referred to the Court of Misdemeanors together with the maid, both accused of illicit sex.