Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Newham, London, United Kingdom (tried at Snaresbrook Crown Court) · 2019

United Kingdom: imam appointed to tutor two sisters in the Quran jailed 8 years for sexually abusing them

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

imam appointed by the family as private Quran tutor to two sisters

Organization

Private Quran tuition arrangement, Newham, London

Spiritual nexus

Pirzada was appointed by the victims' family specifically as an imam to teach the two sisters the Quran; that religious-instructor role, and the family's deference to it, gave him unsupervised private access during which he abused both girls between 2007 and 2009.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2019-01-21 · conviction and sentence

Snaresbrook Crown Court, England. Sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment for child abuse offences against two girls, aged 9-11 at the time, whom he taught the Quran between 2007 and 2009.

Documented coercion mechanisms

religious-instruction role secured unsupervised, recurring private access to the two girls
family's trust in his religious credentials as imam removed ordinary safeguarding scrutiny

Primary record

Sources

diaspora press court reporting criminal disposition and nexus Pothwar News, 'London; Hafiz Azizur Rehman Pirzada, aged 76 of Northolt was sentenced to a total of eight years for child abuse' (Jan. 23, 2019).: Diaspora press report confirming the Snaresbrook Crown Court sentence, the Quran-tutor role, and the family-arranged nature of the tuition.
regional newspaper court reporting corroboration Newham Recorder, 'Imam sexually abused two young girls in Newham.': Local court report corroborating the imam role, the ages of the victims, and the offence period.

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