Tue May 22 22:51:47 SAST 2012
Tue May 22 22:51:47 SAST 2012

Woman slices off employer's penis after abuse

Apr 13, 2011 | Sapa AFP | 176 comments

An Ethiopian maid struck back at her allegedly abusive employer in Dubai, slicing off the Emirati man's penis in response to harassment, the 7DAYS daily on Wednesday quoted the emirate's police as saying.

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Police responded to a call from the man and "found him bleeding badly. His housemaid had chopped off his private parts using a knife", 7DAYS quoted a Dubai police official as saying of the attack on Monday.

"She claimed the man used to abuse and harass her. On the day of the incident, she claims he asked her to give him a massage. She got angry, went to the kitchen to get a knife and attacked him," the official said.

The maid has been charged with assault, the paper said, while the Emirati man is recovering in hospital. It was not clear if his severed member had been re-attached.

The UAE and other Gulf countries have come in for repeated criticism from human rights groups over their treatment of millions of foreign workers, mostly Asians.

Rights groups and activists have reported various cases of employers torturing maids in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.

The watchdogs have also sharply criticised the sponsorship system, still in force in most Gulf states, by which workers must be sponsored by their employer and which has been likened to modern-day slavery.

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Tue May 22 22:51:47 SAST 2012 ::
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Apr 13, 2011

tsayaya

Iyo, i wonder what's gonna happen to the poor woman, phela these Arabs still see blacks as slaves, she may be charged with attempted murder instead of the case being seen as self protection, lord have mercy on her.
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Apr 13, 2011

KKK

GOOD FOR YOU WOMAN...... (IF THE MAN WAS HARRASING YOU)
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Apr 13, 2011

MissD

TJO
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Apr 13, 2011

Mathutha

Umlayile maan sisi.
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Apr 13, 2011

qalowakw

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa kwakwakwa he must just die he is useless already no men hood
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Apr 13, 2011

Ritz-Ritz

(Clapping) Gud woman, Bastard!
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Apr 13, 2011

tsayaya

If it were in SA (lawlessness) the case would be easy, but under Shariah Law it is quite difficult.
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Apr 13, 2011

KKK

BODY E KWAE-LESS (LOL)

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Apr 13, 2011

nevus

Tell the truth you've been feeding him and he wanted nothing to do with you you cut it?
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Apr 13, 2011

Mthondosheshayo

Really what is a man without umthondo?
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