UNITED KINGDOM
Heart
8th October 2016
A religious teacher, who practised as an Imam at a Dudley mosque has been convicted of sexually abusing two pupils more than 30 years ago.
Hifiz Rahman, aged 57, from Ballard Road, Netherton, was found guilty at Wolverhampton Crown Court of sexually assaulting two girls at Queens Cross Mosque in the 1980s.
Rahman was arrested and charged after one of the girls, now aged 40, bravely reported to police in 2012 that she had been sexually assaulted as child by the Imam at the mosque, when she was aged between seven and eight.
She told officers that the Imam used to abuse her as she read from the ‘Holy Book’ but was too scared to tell anyone at the time.
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