Good conduct pledge frees citizen in consensual sex case – Shisha-smoking mom loses child’s custody

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KUWAIT CITY, Nov 17: The Criminal Court refrained from pronouncing punishment against a Kuwaiti citizen who was accused of having consensual sex with his 19-year old girlfriend in university. The court instead demanded him to sign a pledge of good conduct, with financial guarantee, for a period of one year.

According to the case file, investigations revealed that the citizen was involved in an intimate affair with the girl and had consensual sex with her at an undisclosed place. He then took her back to her parents’ house.

However, she was confronted by her father who demanded to know the reason why she came home late. When she revealed the reason, he took her to the police station and filed a case against her boyfriend.

During the court session, the defense counsel Lawyer Ayed Mahdi Al-Rushaidi objected to the contradicting statements of the Criminal Investigations officer and the victim. He stressed that his client had confessed at the Criminal Investigations Department that he is in a relationship with the girl and his intentions are good because he wants to marry her; however, her parents rejected him several times. Lawyer Al-Rushaidi assured that his client will not commit a crime in the future.

Mom loses custody: A mother in Kuwait has lost the custody of her children after she was accused of spending hours smoking shisha outside her home, says Gulf News.

The Family Court said that evidence shows that the mother devoted a lot of her time to smoking shisha, a fact that affected her health and made her socially unfit to raise her children and look after their wellbeing, Kuwaiti daily Al Qabas reported on Thursday.

The court insisted that the prolonged shisha smoking was legal ground enough to remove the custody amid concerns that the children would not be given an appropriate upbringing and education. Some legal experts said that the legal ground could be used in cases filed by unhappy mothers against their former husbands since they, too, spend long hours smoking shishas outside their home.

The experts argued the court should uphold the principle in all cases regardless of gender found guilty of negligence towards children or of putting their lives at risk because of heavy smoking. However, they added that no mother has so far raised the heavysmoking argument in any custody case.

Lawyers told the daily that some wives wanted to obtain divorce and resorted to heavy smoking in order to force their husbands to file for the end of their union. They added that some mothers lost custody cases after husbands saw private pictures of their spouses on social media.

By Jaber Al-Hamoud Al-Seyassah Staff and Agencies

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