Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Ruqya, shrine, and healing contexts Singapore · 2019

Singapore: accredited religious teacher jailed for molesting a student under a black-magic 'cure'

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Muis-accredited religious teacher (asatizah)

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The victim was the defendant's own religious student, and the claimed supernatural affliction — diagnosed by the man she trusted to teach her scripture — is what brought her under his hands.

Curse or witchcraft threat
Spiritual healing or treatment
Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2019-04-12 · guilty plea, conviction and sentence

State Courts of Singapore. A 73-year-old religious teacher accredited under Singapore's Asatizah Recognition Scheme pleaded guilty to outrage of modesty for molesting his 36-year-old Quran-recitation student in a mosque in 2017, having told her black magic was preventing her from conceiving and proposing a 'cure'. He was sentenced to 16 months and struck off the accreditation scheme.

Documented coercion mechanisms

claim that black magic was blocking the student's pregnancy
a 'cure' administered in a mosque

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Singapore Islamic religious teacher jailed for molesting married student', Malay Mail, 12 Apr. 2019.: Reports the guilty plea, the black-magic pretext, the sentence, and the striking-off.

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