A Teacher Accused Of Child Abuse in the Maldives

by BadrNaseem | August 19, 2008 at 04:20 am
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A Qu’ran teacher has been reported to police for allegedly sexually abusing a seven year old child on Baa atoll Thuladhoo, and remains at large pending the investigation into his case.

The child’s family have said the man, who they say is now teaching in Kaafu atoll Thulusdhoo, had been abusing the girl since Ramazan last year.

Police media spokesperson Sergeant Ahmed Shiyam said the suspect has not been arrested but the case is currently under investigation.

The victim’s brother said the suspect was taken in for questioning and his passport has been taken, but he has not been charged.

Passports of suspects may be confiscated for seven days before a court order must be obtained to hold them for longer.

The girl made the complaint to her sister first, according to the family, who say the seven-year-old has complained of being scared and of having sleeping and breathing difficulties.

The teacher used to work on the island last year but has since moved, although he still returns to the island for vacations.

“A lot of children used to go see him after class,” said the victim’s brother, who asked not to be named.

He said there had been “around eight or ten” similar reports made “two or three years ago,” but that the suspect had left for Saudi Arabia to study and the complaints were never investigated.

“It is good news that his passport has been taken. Now he can’t flee like he did 3 years ago. We are all very sad. Our mother is not well at all. I don’t want him let loose. He will do it again,” he added.

The suspect did not answer calls, but the family say he has denied the allegations.

In February, Justice Minister at the time Mohamed Muiz Adnan said there had been a large increase in “sexual offences such as child abuse.”

Anecdotal evidence suggests child abuse was already highly prevalent, with the increase in reported cases arising from increased awareness and media attention.

Sentencing regulations were overhauled in February to introduce jail time for child sex offenders, who had previously been banished to other islands, raising concerns they could continue to abuse.

But two local NGOs spoke out in May against the release of suspected child abusers whilst their investigations were ongoing, with the Child Protection Unit also recommending a change of policy.


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alil.laam.gaaf

this is a very much biased writing. it would have been much better had you written that a teacher has done it. now when you say a Quraan teacher did, it is no different than USA people and the rest of the Westerners saying muslims or islam just after the word terror. here your using Quran before the word abuse, as if to give the worng messgage at a wrong time in a wrong mannrer.



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meehaagadhu

even i agree with you..

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Abdulah Jaleel

Hello Badru,

It is a shame that a Quruan teacher involves with such a horrible act and whover did it should be brought to justice. By the way you may have heard that Christian clergies in Australia have sexually mollested thousand of young Australian boys. I would say Christians and especially Vatican is behind this type of horrendious act. You know very well that Islam forbids adultery and homosex and there is severe punishment for the offenders in Islam than any other religion. I belive the intention of your article is to tarnish Holy Quran.

Abdullah Jaleel

 

 

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BadrNaseem

alil.laam.gaaf : Abdulah Jalee

This is not written by me. This is originally written by Minivannews.com

Your satisfactions and dissatisfactions in this regard need to be communicated with the said "minivannews.com". My intention of this article is never ever to tarnish Holy Quran.I am a believer "Trust me"


And if I come across any news related to such and belongs to a different religion or cult I surely would report it here.

Thanks.

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inspiration

Hi,

Please be mindful to not to messup faith of people (any faith) with offences or crimes commited by some individuals. No faith in the world teaches us or encorage  sexual abuse or adultry. Religions are world heritages, lets safeguard them for a better, safer & brighter tomorow.

Thanks

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elfa

Badr,

just a thought,


i think why minivan has said 'quaran teacher' is because it happens a lot with quran teachers. who tries to hide the filthy part of their mind and pretend to be really clean. with no sins. Another thing that we use to do is punish the culprit, but what about the girl who was abused, has anyone thought of her, that she needs any attention, that she'll be in a big trauma.

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aish

i totally agree with the above comment..a lotta ppl choose that field to hide their perverted mind...and i dont know why still a lot of ppl like that are given the same job again and again...the quran teacher who has been showing on tv everyday after maqrib prayer,,..was been caught few years back for abusing his students...i remember he came to teach us when i was in thajudheen school and i have seen it from ma own eye....i remember some parents complained abt it and police did investigate even and then they changed our quran teacher...but i dont think he got any punishment...this is so sad..i think still the government is v loose in these people....and nw the famous naseem sir is having a tution class and i dont understand why parents are still sending there children to him..why cant ppl wake up...

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Simon Shareef

Following will be enough as a comment to this article by Simon Shareef.  http://www.randomreflexions.comWhat about the Children?

I am a father of 3 very young children. I, as their father, am responsible for their security more than anything else. Their life is a thousandfold more precious to me than my own. I will ensure that no harm shall fall on any of them and I will protect them with my own life. And in my mission to protect them I shall be aware, vigilant, discerning and observant. I will protect them from physical harm, from abusive relatives and friends and from sexual predators that lurk in our society knowing all too well that if I don't protect my children then absolutely no one will. And that is a serious problem worthy of contemplation.

No sane parent would willingly harm or allow harm to their children. And yet everyday we see and hear heartbreaking news about something happening to some child or children somewhere. A child is molested by 4 men in Vilingili, a child sexually abused by the Quran teacher in Baa Atoll, five children are sexually abused by the imam of Baa atoll Goidhoo, a child is raped by 4 men in some other island, a child is sexually molested by a MNDF officer, and so on and so forth.

What would the parents of these children feel I wonder. What kind of anger and sorrow would parents endure knowing their children had been stripped of their innocence - to say nothing of the permanent psychological trauma inflicted on the children themselves?

Until recently the law did not provide much in the way of punishment for child sex offenders and pedophiles. Readers will remember that a huge public outcry due to lenient sentencing of certain abuse cases lead to changes in regulations just this year only. After how many little innocent lives ruined is that?

Time and time again I've seen the judiciary in a state of disability when it comes to protecting the rights of children. And strangely enough, if you think about this, we too are at a loss as to what kind of punishment must be meted out for pedophiles and child molesters. We know, from divine guidance in the Quran, how many lashes must be administered for having sex outside of marriage or adultery with a consenting partner. But do we know what to do with the 50 year old man who forced himself on the innocent, petrified and sobbing 6 year old child? No! We know what must be done with a thief but we have naught in dealing with the child rapist. Let me ask you this: Is it more important to punish two consenting adults than to save a child from harm? Is it more urgent to specify, in great detail, the punishment for theft or make sexual predation on children a sin?

Somehow children are precious to us mere mortals. It is a biological response that is hardwired into our genes. We weep at the sight of a starving Somalian child, we weep for the children in the West Bank, in Iraq, in Afghanistan and we weep for victims of sexual and physical abuse. It's the children, your children, and their child. We have devised declarations specifically protecting the rights of children in the UN charter and yet, in our most precious books of divine guidance, the Quran or the Bible, the protection of children and their rights are sadly nonexistent.

Why do you think we frequently hear of Quran teachers molesting children? In my opinion, the blame has to be shared between religion, the teacher and the parents. Quran teachers are viewed as people of religion by parents. They entrust their children into their care without a doubt or suspicion of wrong-doing because they see religion as a protective shield that will ensure the safety of their children. After all, a religious man will never harm anyone, let alone a child.

But religion offers no such protection to children.

When the pedophile imam is about to molest his child victim does he have a certain holy verse in his preferred holy book that should dissuade him or is he more reluctant , if at all, because of his act being a societal taboo? Is there such a person as a religious pedophile? If so, does he have anything in the scriptures that warn him of eternal damnation in hell, hellfire, flogging and stoning that awaits he who touches and destroys the innocence and the purity of a child? No, of course not!

But that's the reality, is it not? We are confused and act like a bunch of blinded fools when it comes to children's rights simply because we are left to act based on our own moral judgments. I've read a lot of articles written in outrage and condemnation of child sexual abuse, in print and in blogs, but not one has identified the root of the problem. Let me ask you. What are you thinking when you are watching movies like "Trade" or "The girl next door"? What goes through your mind when you read about your friendly neighbourhood pedophile Quran teacher who abused your neighbour's 7 year old? Ever though if it was your own child that was touched and fondled by the filthy hands of a strange man? Imagine it for a minute if you can handle it. What do you think? I know what I think.

I think the omniscient God forgot about the suffering of his children.


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unreal

simon, god didnt forget to mention child abuse ... really, does god have to mention each thing that can be abused ? categorize  in age groups  and mention each group separately along with a list of farm animals that can be abused ? the verses in the quran are clear cut, what you CAN do has been mentioned, so anything other than that is forbidden.. is that so hard to understand ?


the teacher only had to remember one verse to stop him from committing this  sin if he believed and feared. so this isnt a matter of the quran flaling as it clearly hasnt. this is all about a single monster in disguise that needs to be dealt with.


tell me something on a finishing note simon, if an atheist  committed this crime, who's head would you bite off and blame ? humanity as whole ? its not the belief or teaching that is flawed, its the person. 

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kalhutheyo

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Response to Random Simon


Looks like a repetition is in order.

 

My 'friend' all paedophiles were once children- therefore their upbringing, the social environment in which they are brought up in has a bearing on their actions as adults. That is why we say healthy child rearing practises has the potential to positively reinforce socially acceptable traits while keeping in check those perverted ones.

That's why children need to be taught what is right & wrong from the most tender of ages; so that 'when they grow up or while they are growing up they won't touch other people's nether places or let others touch theirs' Duh My 3 oz is at least capable of abstract reasoning and making associations.

 

The problem is we are Not talking about lechery and sexual debauchery! You imagine that if the Qur’an was abolished and Islam made null, that molesters would disappear into the night? Your ideal western nations are demonstrating how fertile a ground secular soil is for breeding every kind of human perversion. You are missing the point by thousands on purpose.

Where such legislation is in place (unlike in our phony Qur’an or the AUTHENTIC Bible hehe) protecting children’s rights, it is built on a social fabric that is just as complacent towards lechery & sexual debauchery; consider that in most European nations incest is now legal and we all know where homosexuality stands. And of course child molesters immediately provoke an outcry, but when a child abuse site receives 10million hits in an hour and when apprehended perpetrators are often middle to old aged, often married men- then we have to wonder where this politically correct outcry stands. It is not surprising that such an environment breeds scumbags like Gary Glitter.

 

For you to pretend that the Qur'ans failure to mention child abuse (it has not mentioned homosexuality or incest either; but maybe only “religious fundies” think these are aberrations of human behaviour, or Christians who think the Lord has forgiveth all their sins before & after) has been the prime reason why an imam and some Qur'an teachers have been implicated in child abuse is self-serving for you and your like only. And for Paedophiles!

 

We should then be thankful that at least here we don't follow a bible- which is full of sex, esp. incest.

 

Should I explain the permanent psychological damage that becomes inevitable when a child grows up in an environment that is complacent towards incest (secular and conservative Christian societies); he thinks it's ok to touch his siblings; this is then extrapolated through out his life.

Promiscuity is a contributing factor in an environment which is complacent towards, or even condones, sexual freedoms.

 

“And furthermore, child sexual abuse is not just, as some people think, "kuda kudhinnaa ekee jinsee gulhun hingun", isn't it? Putting it in simplistic terms”- ?? who the fok is putting it in simple terms if not you!

 

And, when you wish to demonstrate someone else’s ignorance make sure you don’t flash your own old man. The Bible, nor our Fake Qur’an or any secular document is a replacement for Human innate conscience. Only if one is a paedophile will one the Qur’an as being complacent towards child abuse, simple because it has not specified beyond the assertion of sexual excesses as among the gravest of sins.

To stand up for your children's rights requires the understanding that banning holy scriptures and abolishing religion and ruling God as void & null, does not eradicate the threat of child molesters.

To stand up for children’s rights requires understanding that no amount of legislature, as in your first world, will deter child abuse rings so long as a culture of lechery and sexual debauchery exists ingrained within the very fabric of society.

One cannot go rally against child abuse and then go and browse a Barely Legal site showing women dressed as underage girls with ponytails.

Yes your article is disgusting because you are hiding behind your own children- dressed as the concerned good Samaritan, to launch attacks on our fake Qur’an and basing your entire argument on the premise that it is the mere failure to mention specifically child molestation that is the root cause for cases of child abuse on our society. You wish it could be equated to the epic scale of child abuse and sexual molestation rampant among celibate catholic clergy- but you would have to stretch it by ‘thousand’s of kilometres’.

My only concern for your children is that they are forced to lead double lives by a deranged Islamophobic such as you. A guy who cannot make two sentences without pissing on Muslims.

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love islam

Actually the person who wrote this article shouldn't used the word "QU'RAN" here, instead can use " A teacher". If the person who wrote this article is a muslim, that means he/she doesn't have a true love to our holy book and islam.     

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Abdulla

Dera,

Girls Like Sex when they reach 9 years and later they them self approach man, but the punisments are getting on man,but the Girl is inocent. From 7 years Girl are allowe d to maryy with the concern of Parents and Husband is pemited to sleep age 9 compleats. Its how Alaah has permits. But you people are against it. Man Made Law cannot do well.

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Faith786

Abdulla: it is people like you who give a bad name to Islam through your narrow interpretations...

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BadrNaseem

The comments are getting longer and longer so I edited the headline from "Quran Teacher" to "A teacher".

love islam : I think your suggestion makes sense and I edited the headline. But the original articles source comes from Minivannews.com

So I left the article as it is but I changed the headline.

Hope it helps.

Badr'

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Not u

Anyone can write craps but non knows the truth. Even not the write of this article will know him better then i do. Three years back he was blamed for having sexual abuse with children in the same Island. One lady Named Aisha (Binbi) who scream like hell saying that he sexually abuse her child and was later ask for the forgiveness and swear god saying she never tell that to any one. (Just in case refer to this Lady).


I don't want go for more details about but does it make scene? This guy is a suspect. He came after his studies. His family is not involving any government departments. Why cant they (who suffer the abuse) go to courts and carry on this case. They could not do that because thats all lies to stop him from his studies. They are more over jealous to the family happier then ever. Fact is that They have no proof and evidence that can prove anything.

Later, most of the families who scream blaming the innocent teacher suffered worst night nightmare. Tow of there children got pregnant (With out a marriage). Other one's child was busted having sexual activities with a guy.

They are still trying to screw him and failed and will fail forever. I request the writer to come up with his name if he so confident and don't just write what ever he want. He better investigate and if he or she is too lazy to write, then don't try to write all these craps which could insult others reputation.

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Birun

i appreciate the peoples concern regarding the matter. But when we talk about the god's curse on this teacher, how many are sure that this is true story? how many of you think that this is a game to play with someones image and reputation? How many of you believe in this story?

your ideas are really important ones but then dont just write what ever we want unless we dont know the fact.

thankx


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