A South African hotel employee who had an abortion when she became pregnant after sleeping with a hotel guest was yesterday sentenced to six months in jail, according to a report in The National.
MB, 25, had faced a maximum penalty of 100 lashes and five years in prison, but will be deported after serving her sentence instead.
The court heard she was arrested after she checked into a Sharjah hospital haemorrhaging on September 7 and it transpired she had met an American guest at the Dubai hotel where she was employed and he invited her for an evening out.
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She said they had sex, and she never saw him again, however, having gone to the hospital she was reported to police and was charged with committing zina - the Sharia offence of sex outside marriage - and aborting a four-month-old foetus.
Prosecutors were told that after the woman discovered she was pregnant a friend gave her six pills to terminate her pregnancy.
She had served 113 days of her sentence.
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