Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey · 2023

Turkey: imam sentenced to twenty-seven years for abusing a twelve-year-old Quran-course student

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Appellate history

Conviction confirmed.

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

imam running a mosque Quran course

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CORE: a child sent to learn the Quran, under the man teaching it.

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

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Proceedings

2023-01-01 · conviction; confirmed on appeal

Tarsus 1st Heavy Penal Court; Adana Regional Court, 12th Criminal Division (appellate). Mehmet D., 59, an imam running a mosque Quran course, was convicted of qualified sexual abuse of a minor and unlawful deprivation of liberty against a twelve-year-old student of the course, and sentenced to twenty-seven years and six months. The Adana regional appellate court confirmed the conviction.

Documented coercion mechanisms

religious-teacher authority over a Quran-course student
unlawful deprivation of the child's liberty

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national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Cumhuriyet: 'Kuran kursunda çocuk istismarı: sanık imama 27,5 yıl hapis'.: Turkish national daily's court report.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/siyaset/kuran-kursunda-cocuk-istismari-sanik-imama-275-yil-hapis-1875130 Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 eea378c85605d3c2d53322960592f6bc8186baf5e5988fd870fbc5b0ef27b41a
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