A gardener has been accused of beating up two teenaged brothers and repeatedly raping them after blackmailing them with their nude images.

A 16-year-old Pakistani schoolboy was said to have been lured first by his 34-year-old countryman gardener, who talked the teenager into his car and drove him around several times to gain his trust in January.

When the boy refused to have sex with the gardener for the first time in his car, the latter dropped him in front of a public park in Al Rashidiya.

Later, he convinced the 16-year-old to meet him in the same park and had forced sex with him.

The gardener repeated the act and filmed the boy after abusing him sexually.

Thereafter, the suspect blackmailed the boy using his nude images which he threatened to circulate on Facebook and other social media platforms if the teen refused to have sex with him.

Meanwhile, the gardener allegedly coerced the 16-year-old boy to take nude pictures of his 12-year-old brother and forward the same to him.

Records showed the gardener used the same modus operandi and lured the younger brother to have sex with him four to five times.

Sometime later, the 34-year-old demanded one of the brothers to take Dh1,500 from his father’s wallet and give it to him.

The brothers’ sexual ordeal was exposed, according to records, when the father confronted his family members about money stolen from his wallet. It was then that the 12-year-old burst into tears and told his father how the gardener had been threatening them and raping them.

Police apprehended the 34-year-old man shortly after the father took his sons to the police station and lodged a complaint.

Prosecutors charged the suspect of raping the minor brothers repeatedly, assaulting them, breaching their modesty and privacy and molesting them by filming them naked. He was also accused of possessing child pornographic materials and using those images to blackmail the brothers and coerce them into having sex with him.

Prosecutors also charged the suspect of exploiting a minor pornographically by coercing him to film another minor in nude and using those indecent images for sexual gains.

The Pakistani suspect was further charged with misusing the telecommunication system, threatening the brothers’ verbally and coercing one of them to rob his father.

The suspect pleaded not guilty when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday.

He contended before the presiding judge that the brothers had consensual sex with him and that he did not coerce them.

The 34-year-old further claimed in court that the boys were the ones who asked him and allowed him to film them naked. He claimed that he deleted those images.

The 16-year-old told prosecutors that despite having resisted the suspect several times, the latter assaulted him and forced him to have sex with him.

The 12-year-old testified to prosecutors that they [him and his brother] were forced to have sex with the suspect after he threatened to publish their nude images on Facebook and to show them to their father. The brothers were quoted as telling prosecutors that the suspect paid them between Dh20 and Dh40 every time he had sex with one of them.

The court will appoint a lawyer to defend the suspect when it reconvenes on May 21.

source: GULF NEWS