Senegal: marabout convicted after four talibés died at his unregistered daara
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Quranic teacher (marabout) running a boarding daara
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The boys were talibés boarded under the marabout's total custodial and spiritual authority in the daara tradition; they depended on him for food and could not leave — the conditions that led them to forage the seeds that killed them.
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Proceedings
2021-01-01 · conviction and sentence
Tribunal, Thiès region, Senegal. Marabout Moussa Seck, who ran an undeclared and uninspected daara boarding fourteen talibé boys, was convicted of endangering the lives of others after four boys of about eleven died from ingesting toxic seeds they had foraged under conditions of neglect and malnutrition. He received a three-month suspended sentence — a disposition the reporting itself records as symbolic.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- total custodial and spiritual authority over boarded talibés
- dependence on the marabout for food
Cited record
Sources
- national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Quatre talibés morts à Thiénaba: le maître coranique condamné', DakarActu (2021), corroborated by SeneNews and Walf.
Senegalese press reporting the conviction for endangering the lives of others and the suspended sentence after the four deaths.
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- https://www.dakaractu.com/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 36ba346dfcbd4f92af7ec9ca04327d99eda5635737a02ea48978cb31640bd86a
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