Court fines Kuwaiti woman 4,000 dinars for child neglect

The Misdemeanor Court has fined a Kuwaiti woman 4,000 dinars ($13,090) after a court found her guilty of child neglect — for leaving her children unattended while she travelled abroad for plastic surgery.

The Court based its ruling on testimonies from the children’s grandmother, who revealed the mother had been absent from her children for several months. The grandmother’s account was confirmed by the children’s father (the woman’s husband).

The son of the accused stated in court that his mother abandoned him and his siblings and that he wished to live only with his father, according to news reports.

Child protection authorities supported these claims in their report. Attorney Abdul Mohsen Al Qattan, representing the grandmother as a civil plaintiff, demanded the maximum penalty and compensation, while the mother’s lawyer sought acquittal.

The ruling was issued under Kuwait’s Child Law No. 21/2015, which guarantees children the right to care and penalizes parental neglect.

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