Pakistani Driver Was Sentenced To 10 Years In Jail for Kissing Child's Cheek

The 39-year-old Pakistan driver apparently not known a kiss on the cheek of a little Bahraini girl will cost him 10 years of freedom. The man told the court in Gulf island kingdom he kissed the five-year-old girl as one of his own daughters but the court did not believe him. A medical report presented in the court in capital Manama showed the girl suffered from redness in her cheek, indicating "it was a violent kiss by force", the court was told. he unnamed man was arrested after the girl's mother reported him when she saw her daughter crying after coming home from school. The girl told her mother the driver, who used to take her school every day kissed and bit her cheek. She said he asked her many times to bite her cheek but she she refused until he forced her that day. Bahrain newspaper said judge scoffed at the defendant when he said he kissed the girl with her consent, telling him there "such things can not be taken from a child in the court." The judge told him that the pictures show "trauma-like" sign on girl's face and that it can not be a normal or paternal kiss. The paper said the judge found the driver guilty of kissing the girl by force and sentenced him 10 years in jail and also ordered his expelsion from Bahrain.