Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom · 2016

United Kingdom: Cardiff imam jailed for 13 years for abusing girls in his religious classes

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

imam and mosque religious teacher of over thirty years

Organization

Madina Mosque, Cardiff

Spiritual nexus

The girls were children of the congregation receiving religious instruction from him; that teaching role, held for decades and trusted by their families, is what produced the access.

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2016-01-01 · conviction and sentence

Crown Court, Wales, United Kingdom. Mohammed Haji Saddique, an imam who had taught at the Madina Mosque for more than thirty years, was convicted of fourteen offences — six indecent assaults and eight sexual assaults — against four young girls under his religious instruction between 1996 and 2006, and was jailed for thirteen years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

religious instruction of congregant children

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Cardiff imam jailed for 13 years for sexually abusing girls', Dawn (World), 2016.: Reports the fourteen convictions and the thirteen-year sentence imposed on the long-serving mosque teacher.

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