The Chief Prosecutor of the Family and Child Prosecution stated that the Public Prosecution had completed its investigations into the incident of the death of a child in a private transport vehicle, and ordered that its leader be referred to the High Criminal Court for wrongly causing the death of the child through negligence and practicing transport activities without a license.
The Public Prosecution had received a notification from the Northern Hamad Town Police Station in the Northern Governorate Police Directorate, stating that the accused negligently caused the death of a four-and-a-half-year-old child after she forgot him inside her private vehicle for several hours in the afternoon and did not deliver him to kindergarten in the morning.
The Public Prosecution took over the investigation into the incident, where it moved to the scene of the accident, conducted the necessary inspection, and ordered the vehicle to be seized and examined. It also assigned the forensic doctor to manage the physical evidence, which ended in the death of the child as a result of suffocation inside the vehicle with closed windows and ventilation for hours. It listened to the families of the deceased child, and to the statements of the owner and director of the kindergarten. The accused was also interrogated, which She admitted to the accusation attributed to her, and decided that she was a professional in transporting children and students to kindergartens and schools, without obtaining a license from the competent authorities, and that she was doing so through her private vehicle that was not licensed for transport. She also admitted that she had forgotten the victim child inside her vehicle for several hours, which caused his death, and ordered that she be referred to the Grand Criminal Court, First Circuit, based on the evidence of the accusation against her. A session was set for November 2, 2025, as the date for hearing the case.
