Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia · 2020

Malaysia: tahfiz warden's conviction for assaulting an eleven-year-old boarder upheld on appeal

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

warden of a tahfiz centre

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The victim was a boarding student under the warden's combined custodial and religious-educational authority — the tahfiz structure placed the child in his hands day and night.

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2020-12-01 · conviction; unanimously upheld on appeal

Sessions Court, Kuantan; Court of Appeal, Putrajaya. Tengku Mohammad Khaireel Tengku Wahab, 32, warden of a tahfiz centre, was convicted on 1 December 2020 of two counts of physical sexual assault against an 11-year-old male student and sentenced to ten years and two strokes. On 17 July 2025 the Court of Appeal in Putrajaya unanimously upheld the conviction and sentence, calling the offending 'a disgusting betrayal'.

Appellate history

2025-07-17 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

custodial and religious-educational authority over a boarding student

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting appellate disposition 'Court of Appeal upholds tahfiz warden's conviction for assaulting student', Malay Mail, 17 July 2025.: Reports the appellate affirmance and the court's characterisation.

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