KUWAIT CITY, May 20: By order of the Hawalli Public Prosecution, a grocery store worker has been referred to the central prison on charges of blackmailing a 13-year-old girl. The incident reportedly began when the child allegedly took some sweets from the store and attempted to leave without paying. The worker later used the incident to extort and intimidate her.
According to security sources, the father of the girl, a 51-year-old expatriate, was alerted by neighbors who found his daughter in distress and crying. She had been detained by the store worker.
The girl told her father that the worker had confronted her the day before, accusing her of taking sweets without paying. He then forcibly took money from her bag and threatened to report her to the police unless she returned to him daily. On the day of the incident, she complied with his demand, but he instructed her to stay out of sight of the store’s surveillance cameras. Alarmed, she screamed, prompting passersby to intervene.
The accused later confessed to the crime during questioning by Hawalli detectives. A case has been registered as felony number 115/2025.
