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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom · 2025

United Kingdom: Chatham imam convicted on sixteen counts against four children

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

imam at a mosque and community centre

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The children were in the imam's care through his religious duties at the mosque — instruction and office inseparable.

  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2025-03-01 · conviction and sentence

    English Crown Court. Qari Sher Mohammad, an imam at a Chatham mosque and Muslim community centre, was convicted of sixteen counts of sexual assault against four children over a nine-year period, committed while carrying out his religious duties, and jailed for ten years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • religious duties placing children in his care

Primary record

Sources

reliable contemporaneous court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Imam jailed for sexually assaulting children', KentOnline (Mar. 2025).

Reports the sixteen convictions and sentence.

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