ILLINOIS
San Francisco Chronicle
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago Islamic scholar already facing charges of sexually abusing an employee of the school he founded faces new allegations that he abused a former student.
Mohammad Abdullah Saleem, founder of the Institute of Islamic Education in Elgin, was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail Wednesday on charges of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
The Daily Herald in Arlington Heights reports (http://bit.ly/1NogIUv) Saleem’s new accuser claims the cleric sexually abused her 15 to 20 times between 2001 and 2003, when she was between 14 and 16 years old and a student at the school. Illinois law allows sexual abuse charges within 20 years of an accuser’s 18th birthday.
Saleem had been free on bond on the earlier charge.
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