In Dubai, should you hit and kill someone while driving, the courts will have you pay blood money to the victim's family, usually in the amount of AED200,000 ($54,500). It is not uncommon for poor immigrants to suicide by car in order to secure such a fortune for their families.
But an interesting sentence was handed down to a grieving mother yesterday. The woman was 9 months pregnant when she was involved in a traffic accident that resulted in the miscarriage of her fetus. The judge ordered her to pay blood money. The amount? AED20,000. In other words, a 9-month old fetus is equal to 1/10 of a real person.
It doesn't end there. The mother must pay the blood money to the fetus' "successors." I'm interpreting that to mean her future kids. An odd inheritance, to say the least.
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