Imam found guilty of sexually assaulting young girls in Mosque
The Imam was found guilty at Wolverhampton Crown Court (Picture: Alamy)
An Imam faces jail after he was found guilty of historic sex attacks against two young girls at a mosque.
Religious teacher Hafiz Rahman, 58, sexually assaulted one of the girls when she was aged just six.
Rahman was the Imam at Queens Cross Mosque in Cradley Heath, West Mids., when he launched the string of attacks between March 1986 and August 1987.
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One of the victims, who can’t be named for legal reasons, told police he used to abuse her as she read from the Holy Book.
A court heard she was ‘too scared’ to tell anyone at the time, but the Imam was arrested after she came forward in 2012.
Rahman, of Netherton, was found guilty of five charges of sexually assaulting the two girls at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Friday.
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Queen's Cross mosque (Picture: Google)
Queen’s Cross mosque (Picture: Google)
The jury of eight men and four women also cleared him on two other charges.
Granddad-of-ten Rahman, who has seven children, was not in court to hear the verdicts after his defence counsel Tariq Shakoor said he was unwell.
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Judge Nicholas Cartwright said guidelines for the offences meant an immediate custodial sentence was likely.
He told the court the sentencing would take place on a date to be arranged when Rahman had made a full recovery.
The judge ruled Rahman should also be told he has to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register as soon as possible.
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