Casablanca raqi 'Mossaab': seven-year sentence for sexual assault during a claimed Quranic-healing session
Record class
Core record
Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
self-presented raqi (Quranic healer) known by the name 'Mossaab' operating a healing center
Organization
No organization assigned
Spiritual nexus
The cited record identifies ruqya and Quranic-recitation healing claims, access to a client seeking treatment, and the operation of a dedicated healing center as the material spiritual authority, practice, and pretext connected to the documented sexual assault. The relevant authority role is self-presented raqi.
- Spiritual healing or treatment
Evidence structure
Proceedings
Date in cited record · criminal judgment and sentence
Criminal Court (Chambre Correctionnelle) of Casablanca, Morocco. The court convicted the defendant, known as 'Mossaab,' of sexually assaulting a client during a claimed Quranic-healing (ruqya) session after she lost consciousness, and sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment plus 80,000 Moroccan dirhams in compensation to the civil plaintiff. Police had earlier raided and sealed his healing center, seizing recording equipment.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- ruqya and Quranic-recitation healing-session claims
- access to a client seeking treatment
- inducing unconsciousness during the session
- operation of a dedicated healing center used to isolate the victim
Primary record
Sources
- local court reporting judgment report TeleMaroc, '7 سنوات لراق اغتصب احدى زبوناته' (contemporaneous court report; Arabic).
Contemporaneous court reporting records the Casablanca Criminal Court's seven-year sentence, the 80,000 MAD compensation order, the ruqya-session pretext, and the loss-of-consciousness allegation.
- local court reporting judgment corroboration Kafapress, coverage of the Casablanca Court of Appeal proceeding against the raqi 'Mossaab' (Arabic).
Independent Moroccan outlet corroborates the defendant's alias, the healing-center raid, and the sexual-assault conviction.
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