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

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Muis-accredited religious teacher (asatizah)

Organization

No organization assigned

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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

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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

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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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Source and tier basis: https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2019/04/12/singapore-islamic-religious-teacher-jailed-for-molesting-married-student/1742442 Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 55a8b26fb3e28be91a3f9b0ec5ba9171bb9bc98b46e411aec67a188da94768e1
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