Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Zmij, Melloussa, Tangier, Morocco · 2021

Morocco: village Quran teacher sentenced to 30 years for assaulting six girl pupils

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

mosque-affiliated fqih teaching Quran to village children

Organization

No organization assigned

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The six girls were his Quran pupils in a village where the fqih's standing made both access and silence possible.

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2021-01-01 · conviction and sentence at criminal-chamber level

Tangier Court of Appeal, Criminal Chamber, Morocco. A mosque-affiliated fqih in the village of Zmij, identified as 'A.A.', who taught Quran to local children, confessed to and was convicted of sexually assaulting six minor girls under his instruction, using threats to ensure their silence. The Tangier Court of Appeal's criminal chamber sentenced him to 30 years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

religious-teaching authority over village girls
threats to ensure silence

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'الحكم بـ30 سنة سجنا على فقيه الزميج', Hespress (2021), corroborated by Assahraa, Al3omk and Chouftv.: Reports the confession, conviction, and 30-year sentence.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.hespress.com/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 c6a048e1a301d4a679325c349d1f698400e2f96ade87aa69ae8a6ed988c84352
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