Dubai babysitter who suffocated employer's child to death, receives life in jail term

November 20, 2014

Dubai, Nov 20: The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced a woman babysitter to life in jail for killing her employer’s 11-month-old child with a scarf.

According to the records, on January 18, while the employer VK, 36, British housewife of Indian origin, was outside her house, she got a phone call from her sister telling her that her daughter, who was in the custody of the babysitter, is in a bad condition.

“I reached home in about 10 minutes and the babysitter was holding the little girl who was not moving or making any sound. I called my daughter but she did not respond. I took the little girl to Zulekha Hospital where I was told that she had passed away two hours earlier,” said VK.

The babysitter was holding the baby while the employer was driving to the hospital accompanied by her son.

“The doctor said the child could have suffocated while having milk or something similar. However, I learnt later from the police that the babysitter had suffocated her,” VK told investigators.

A complaint was lodged with Dubai Police and policemen were rushed to the hospital in Nahda at around 9pm.

The mother of the little girl told police that the babysitter had called her at around 6pm, telling her that the child is having difficulty in breathing.

Doctors said that the little girl had passed away at around 11am the same day.

Police had suspicions about the death of the little girl.

Forensic tests proved that the victim had been suffocated. Confronting the babysitter, she admitted to suffocating the child with a scarf and her hand.

“My employer had left the house at around 3pm and I was alone with the little girl. I brought a scarf and wrapped it around the baby’s neck and blocked her mouth and nose with my hand until she died. Then I went to the hall and played with my employer’s four-year-old son. After that, I returned to the bedroom and I was sure that the baby was dead. I called my employer and told her that the baby is suffering from breathing difficulties and that her condition was abnormal,” admitted the babysitter.

She said she did that to be able to travel home as she could not go home because the employer had nowhere to keep the child.

Forensic reported that the victim was suffocated with a piece of cloth that had been wrapped and pulled strongly around the neck. Bruises on the inner side of the lips and the chin and nail scratches on the eyelid were also reported.

The devastated parents of the little girl told police that the babysitter was very good and that the children loved her.

When the police asked them if the babysitter had sought to go home, the mother answered yes and said that a month earlier RT had asked her permission to travel home as her mother had died.

“We had asked her to wait until her residency formalities are finished,” they said.

The babysitter denied premeditated murder when she appeared before the court.

She told the jury presided by Judge Maher Salama Al Mahdi that there had been a scarf on the child’s shoulders when she put her in bed.” I did not kill her. How I could do such a thing when I am a mother?” she asked.

The parents said that they had treated the accused very well and that they considered her a member of the family. They tried to ask her why she had killed their daughter outside the courtroom but police prevented them.

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Syrian Town erupts after Israeli forces enter Beit Jinn; heavy casualties reported

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November 28,2025

Several Syrians were killed and more than two dozen others injured in Israeli strikes on the outskirts of Damascus, amid intensified incursions by the occupying regime since the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad and the rise of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rule.

Syrian state TV reported that the casualties occurred during an overnight Israeli assault involving helicopters and drones on the town of Beit Jinn in the Damascus countryside. The attack followed an Israeli military unit’s entry into the town, where they were surrounded by local residents, leading to gunfire and direct confrontations.

According to the report, “The occupation army’s helicopters and artillery shelled Beit Jinn, located at the foothills of Mount Hermon, resulting in 13 martyrs and 25 injured civilians.” The broadcaster did not specify the full extent of damage.

Al-Ikhbariyah Syria confirmed that the shelling coincided with Israeli soldiers entering Beit Jinn, while artillery pounded surrounding areas. The broadcaster stated that the escalation began after local residents clashed with an Israeli patrol that had infiltrated the southern town and “kidnapped” three young men.

Following a two-hour exchange of heavy fire, Israeli forces withdrew and repositioned on the hill of Butt al-Warda at the town’s outskirts.

Israeli media acknowledged that six soldiers were wounded in the clashes—three of them seriously—describing the confrontation as a “sudden ambush” that forced the deployment of reserve units and air support to secure an exit route. No further details were provided.

The aggression has fueled renewed displacement from Beit Jinn, with residents fleeing to nearby villages amid increasingly frequent Israeli attacks.

The raid came just a day after Israeli troops carried out another ground incursion into Umm al-Luqas village in Quneitra province. According to SANA, an Israeli unit in four vehicles entered the village, raided several homes, and later withdrew.

Syria condemned the repeated incursions as violations of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement and UN resolutions, urging the international community to enforce compliance and pressure Israel to halt its operations and withdraw fully.

Israel has expanded its attacks across Syrian territory following the collapse of the Assad government last year. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly instructed his forces to push deeper into Syrian territory and seize strategic positions.

Meanwhile, critics say the HTS-led interim government’s inaction and growing normalization gestures toward Israel have emboldened Tel Aviv to intensify its military operations. HTS, formerly linked to al-Qaeda, seized control of Damascus last December, formally ending Assad’s rule.

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