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AB Wire

WASHINGTON, DC: A popular and highly revered Imam of the South Asian community in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, known as the ‘Billy Graham’ of the community, Mohammad Abdullah Saleem, 75, has been accused by a 23-year-old Indian American woman of forcibly sexually molesting her, and has been charged in a lawsuit against him brought by her.

Three other women have also since stepped forward to the police to claim that the Imam molested them when they were children, reported The New York Times.

The Times interviewed the victim as well as the Imam, and a mediator who had tried to patch up matters between the two, local Islamic scholar Omer Mozaffar. The Imam had eventually rendered an written apology to the unidentified Indian American woman.