2023-06-05 23:15:03
The Senegalese police announced that a teacher in a Koranic school in the city of Touba, in the center of the country, who is being pursued for the rape of at least 27 of his students, turned himself in to the authorities on Monday, following he fled from justice for weeks.
“The accused was arrested today following he turned himself in to the police. After interrogation, he was handed over to the gendarmerie in Toba. He has been on the run” for several weeks, a Toba police official told AFP.
Toba is a sacred city for the influential Islamic group Mouridine in Senegal.
The Quran teacher, whose age the authorities did not reveal, has fled justice since the scandal broke in March, according to the same source.
He is accused of “raping 27 of his female students” in a Koranic school in Toba.
According to a police source, “the rapes took place over a period of time.”
The source, on condition of anonymity, said that the gendarmerie forces opened an investigation following receiving a complaint from victims who submitted medical certificates.
The source did not specify the age of the victims, but the local press said that they were “minors”, that is, under 15 years old.
According to the local press, the school where the accused was working has been closed since the scandal was revealed.
The matter of this Quranic teacher was exposed when one of his students refused to return to school because he “has sexual relations with her and with all the other girls,” according to what the local newspaper “Le Jour” wrote.
The arrest of this accused comes days following a ruling was issued once morest opposition figure Osman Sonko, who was accused two years ago by a 23-year-old beauty salon employee in Dakar of raping her.
On Thursday, the court acquitted Sonko of the charge of rape, but sentenced him to two years in prison on charges of pushing the plaintiff to “debauchery.”
Following the issuance of this conviction, bloody clashes broke out in Senegal, leaving 16 people dead. Sonko’s supporters and their opponents, supporters of President Macky Sall, accused each other of causing these acts of violence and of causing casualties.
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