{"id":264380,"date":"2017-07-09T17:43:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T21:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=264380"},"modified":"2020-11-22T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T14:51:55","slug":"81yo-imam-jailed-for-sexually-assaulting-girls-in-welsh-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/81yo-imam-jailed-for-sexually-assaulting-girls-in-welsh-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"81yo imam jailed for sexually assaulting girls in Welsh mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>What a great morning: his name being Saddique could not be imagined even by the most creative Hollywood scenarist\u2026 sadism finally explained\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An 81-year-old imam has been jailed for 13 years for sexually assaulting young girls during Koran lessons at a mosque in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Haji Sadiqque was found guilty of six counts of indecent assault and eight counts of sexual assault on four girls aged between five and 11 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The assaults took place between 1996 and 2006 at the Madina mosque in Cardiff where Sadiqque taught for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was launched in 2006 when two girls came forward with complaints against the imam. He denied the allegations and the investigation was shelved until 2016 when it was restarted after two more victims came forward.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Jenkin, a spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \u201cThese women have shown remarkable courage in coming forward to speak about the abuse they suffered at the hands of Mohammed Sadiqque when they were young girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadiqque was a respected figure in the community with considerable influence and power, which makes the bravery of his victims all the more admirable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evidence given by these women meant the prosecution was able to present a compelling case to the jury, resulting in the guilty verdicts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A jury found Sadiqque guilty in June and he was handed his sentence on Friday. He has consistently denied any wrongdoing and claims he is the victim of a conspiracy by other members of the mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the abuse \u201ca gross breach of trust,\u201d Judge Stephen Hopkins QC ordered Sadiqque to register as a sex offender indefinitely, The Guardian reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a darker, deviant side to you which this trial has exposed,\u201d Judge Hopkins said. \u201cThis was a gross breach of trust \u2013 parents sending their young, female children to be taught the Koran by you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/395797-imam-jailed-sex-abuse-wales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/395797-imam-jailed-sex-abuse-wales\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: What a great morning: his name being Saddique could not be imagined even by the most creative Hollywood scenarist\u2026 sadism finally explained\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":284677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}