Dubai: A private nurse has been accused of stealing a pendant worth Dh7,000 from the elderly woman she had been hired to care for.
The 25-year-old Filipina nurse was said to have taken the golden pendant that was on a table while she was present at the 74-year-old Emirati woman’s house in August.
The nurse walked into a jeweller’s shop, according to records, and tried to sell the pendant, claiming that she received it as a gift from the elderly woman. Prosecutors charged the Filipina with theft.
The 25-year-old suspect pleaded guilty when she appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday.
The nurse asked presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi to hand her a lenient punishment.
The 74-year-old woman claimed to prosecutors that she learnt about the theft when the jeweller informed her over the phone that the suspect was trying to sell him a pendant.
“The jeweller called me and informed me that the nurse entered his shop and tried to sell the pendant. He claimed that when he asked her if she had the pendant’s receipt, she alleged that she got it as a gift from me. Then I told the jeweller that I had not gifted her anything and that the pendant had been stolen … then I went to the police station and complained against the 25 year old,” she testified to prosecutors.
A ruling will be heard on December 28.
