FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel
By Erika Pesantes,
Sun Sentinel
Police are searching for a teacher suspected of sexually abusing students who attended a private Cooper City school.
The investigation centers on accusations against Tariq Ahmad, 35, in Pembroke Pines, said Sgt. Carlos Corretjer on Friday.
“There is an investigation, it’s still an open case,” Corretjer said. “We’re still trying to locate him.”
Ahmad was a former teacher at Nur-Ul-Islam Academy in Cooper City, school officials said.
Ahmad faces several sex-crime related charges, Corretjer said, but would not elaborate further. He said the case has been turned over to the Broward State Attorney’s Office, which would not comment on the case Friday.
The alleged sex acts did not occur on school grounds, said Yasir Billoo, an attorney representing Nur-Ul-Islam Academy, a pre-kindergarten through grade 12 Islamic school of more than 335 students.
School officials suspended Ahmad when police started investigating earlier this year, Billoo said, and terminated him in early October after an arrest warrant was issued.
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