Tutor jailed for sex abuse of two girls in their home
A PREDATORY Islamic tutor has been jailed for sexually abusing two young girls – while teaching them Arabic in their family home.
Warped Faruque Ahmed was employed to teach the sisters – who were aged between eight and 12 years old at the time – during two-hour study lessons at their Warley home.
The 46-year-old, over a two-year period, routinely sexually assaulted the vulnerable youngsters during classes held between 2009 and 2011.
The girls kept tight-lipped about the catalogue of abuse until one disclosed the offences to an NHS mental health nurse on September 8, 2016.
The following day a specially trained Public Protection Officer from West Midlands Police spoke to the younger girl, now aged 18, and uncovered the extent of Ahmed’s offending.
She disclosed how Ahmed, an Imam living in Stoke, told how she would be struck with a bamboo cane if she resisted.
Ahmed was arrested on February, 10, 2017 and in police interview admitted tutoring the girls but denied ever assaulting them.
However, West Midlands Police charged him with multiple counts of sexual touching of a child and sexual assault of a child by penetration.
And at Wolverhampton Crown Court he was jailed for 14 years having been found guilty on 10 of the 13 counts against him.
He was also given a SHPO (sexual harm prevention order – preventing him with working with children for life) and will be on the sex offenders register for life.
Investigating officer, Detective Constable Sarah West, from West Midlands Police’s Child Abuse Unit, said: “Both victims want to raise awareness within their community and to urge anyone who’s suffered abuse to speak out. They know first-hand how victims can feel pressured to remain silent – that by reporting offences it somehow brings shame on the family – but they recognise now that by doing so it allows offenders to continue offending and puts other children at risk.
“The girls have now got justice for the horrible abuse inflicted on them by Ahmed and are getting the support they need to move on with their lives... and they want other survivors of abuse to do the same.”
People can speak to West Midlands Police’s specialist Child Abuse Team in confidence by calling 101 or alternatively parents or children can contact the NSPCC .