The report, initially distributed by the Dubai-based Emirates every minute of every day news site and got by a few media including AFP, cited a police official as saying the father had blocked lifeguards from sparing his little girl on the grounds that it would "disrespect" her to be touched by bizarre men.
Reacting to an inquiry from AFP on Twitter, Dubai police said the episode was not new.
"This is an old episode that goes back to 1996," police said, without giving any further insights about the case.
Emirates every minute of every day distributed the story this week without giving the date of the episode. It created across the board enthusiasm on interpersonal organizations including allegations media were dispersing an old story.
The site later overhauled the story elucidating that the wellspring of the data on the occurrence, the agent chief of Dubai police pursuit and salvage office Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Burqibah, was "describing a portion of the most exceedingly terrible episodes he had experienced in his residency".
Burqibah had told Emirates day in and day out that when two lifeguards attempted to help the suffocating 20-year-old lady, her dad "began pulling and keeping the salvage men and got fierce with them."
"He let them know that he lean towards his little girl being dead than being touched by an abnormal man," Burqibah said, including that the father was then captured and indicted.
The Asian man had "considered that if these men touched his little girl, then this would disrespect her. It cost him the life of his little girl," Burqibah said.
AFP