The woman, 40, filed a complaint about that the incident that took place on Christmas Day last year.
Published: Tue 21 Mar 2017, 4:00 PM
Updated: Tue 21 Mar 2017, 7:15 PM
A Jordanian accountant was sentenced to 3 months in jail on the charge of sexually harassing a woman in a lift.
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The accountant, 25, was accused of groping the woman, an American, while they were alone in the lift of the building where she stayed in Al Rafaa.
The court ruled that he be deported after serving his time in jail.
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The woman, 40, filed a complaint about that the incident that took place on Christmas Day last year.
She said that he took advantage of the fact that they were alone, to grope her all of a sudden. He ran away from the place the moment the lift door opened.
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The defendant travelled after that. However, he was arrested upon his return ten days later. He was shown to the complainant among other suspects at the police station so she could identify him.
The court's decision may be appealed.
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