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A RUNAWAY housemaid allegedly used her friend’s CPR to register her newborn baby.
According to court documents, the 30-year-old housemaid delivered a baby girl at the Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) on February 6.
She and another Indonesian woman, age 36, are standing trial at the High Criminal Court on charges of forgery.
The 30-year-old initially told prosecutors that she had used her friend’s CPR to register her newborn baby since her own CPR was with her sponsor.
The defendants’ spouses, fellow nationals, have been charged with aiding and abetting. All the defendants denied the charges in court yesterday.
The 30-year-old described how she panicked and used her waitress friend’s CPR to register her newborn child.
The issue came to the light when the waitress told the owner of the restaurant where she works what had happened.
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“I ran away from my sponsor and he held onto my CPR,” the 30-year-old told prosecutors.
“I later went to give birth at the SMC, along with my husband and my friend and her husband.
“I could not register my child and my female friend then told her husband to use her CPR to use in official documents.
“I did not know what to do and this was my only option.”
An employee at the hospital described the procedure of documenting a newborn child when a woman gives birth.
“I receive patients and take their documents and register it in the hospital’s computer system,” the 55-year-old Bahraini receptionist told prosecutors.
“Usually when a woman gives birth a person who accompanies her is asked to give us her identification, while the woman is taken into the operation room for delivery.
“We then issue a sticker which contains information about her identification, which we then give back to the woman or the person who accompanies her.
“We later found out that the defendants carried out forgery.”
The trial has been adjourned until Sunday for submission of defence papers.
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