The Saudi Public Prosecution, represented by the Public Assault Prosecution Office, charged a female citizen working as a health practitioner in the neonatal nursery department with assaulting 11 newborn children, “infants”.
An official source in the Public Prosecution confirmed that by examining the surveillance cameras of the infant nursery room, it was found that the aforementioned was practicing her work with great force and violence on the body of an infant, without observing the medical controls and standards established towards newborns for such cases.
It was also observed that she assaulted him on the face by beating him 3 times, thus exceeding the limits of her job responsibilities and health tasks by deliberately felony newborn children without a will and their dispossession.
Saudi Public Prosecution
Investigation procedures revealed that the aforementioned had repeatedly committed the criminal offenses against 11 infants, justifying that by claiming work pressures.
Suspension of the accused
The source indicated that the accused was arrested and the investigation procedures against her were completed, and by referring her to the competent court, a preliminary judgment was issued against her convicting her of what was attributed to her and sentencing her to imprisonment for a period of 5 years and a fine of 100,000 riyals.
The source pointed out that the Public Prosecution Office appealed the verdict and demanded that the penalty be increased for the accused in view of the heinousness of her felony against infants deprived of their will, and that what she did was a case of being entrusted with them and their lives and health by virtue of her job duties, lacking professional ethics, its lofty values, and correct humanitarian and legal principles in this aspect.
And he stated that criminal protection for newborn children is considered one of the high guarantees established by the Sharia and system, and includes their enjoyment of all health, social and security rights, stressing that practices and behaviors that would felony them or exploit the responsibility held by others towards them by assault, necessitate strict criminal accountability.
