It is easily noted that these laws came into effect and not just a draft while the Former First Lady, Former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in service to the USA.
In 2008 a federal child protection law was drafted, (click here) but never enacted; this will serve as the framework for a new child protection system. Currently Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai is rushing to draft and pass a federal child protection law as a result of a case that shocked the nation. It was recently reported that a father is suspected of killing his 8 year old daughter and torturing her younger sister. The Sheikh visited the younger daughter in the hospital, realizing this situation highlighted the current law’s inadequacies. The new child protection law will be tailored to children instead of the current general penalty code, under which killing a child is no different than killing an adult. A second proposal is also currently being drafted, which seeks to cover child pornography and criminal penalties for the mistreatment of children. The federal law could seek to merge both proposals....
We know the Child Protection Laws of the UAE are in effect because people are being arrested and serving jail time. The penalties are not what they are in the USA, but, these laws do exist.
March 19, 2017
A man who was caught with hundreds of child pornographic films (click here) on his computer devices, and was also distributing the illegal material to small children, has been given six months in jail.
Abu Dhabi Appeal Court has upheld an earlier ruling by the Criminal Court of First Instance that handed down the sentence to the man from Philippines after he was found guilty of possessing child pornography and distributing it among children.
The court has also fined him Dh50,000.
Official court documents stated that the man in his 30s had downloaded the indecent and illegal content from pornography websites.
After downloading the porn films using proxy software, the man allegedly sent them out to mobile phones of children aged aged below 11 and to some adults....
