Police are looking for a Saudi man who allegedly registered a child of his foreign housemaid as that of his wife's, Makkah Police spokesman Major Abdulmuhsin Al-Maiman said. According to the wife, Umm Mohammed, they have no children from their marriage of 15 years, though she has two boys and two girls from a previous marriage. Now she wants a divorce, claiming also that he has not once provided for her in the past four years. She said she had left him to stay in a charity home after he lost his government job because of absenteeism and other violations. Umm Mohammed recalled that her husband had visited her at the charity home with his brother four years ago to ask for the family identity card. “They had been arrested more than once by the Ha'ia (virtue police),” she said, explaining how she tried not to hand it over but got beaten badly and had to part with it. After that he disappeared for four years, she said. Then one day he appeared with another family ID-card but with a new son registered in it, named Faisal. She said he told her the boy was the son of his Christian housemaid whom he had taken to a hospital for the delivery on the pretext that she was his wife. “I refused to cover up for him but he threatened to harm my children, especially my two daughters who live in Taif where he lives.” Left with no other choice, the woman complained to the Jarwal Police station in Makkah.
