Koran teacher to be sentenced for child abuse

A Muslim tutor who was convicted for sexually abusing a young girl as she read the Koran to him, was on Thursday to face sentence at Leicester Crown Court, AFP reported.

Yusuf Mangera, 52, was convicted in October on six counts of indecent assault relating to a two-year period in the late 70s and early 80s when he was employed by the girl's parents to teach their children to read the Koran.

At the time Mangera, who was in his 20s at the time, would come to the family home to tutor the girl and her younger brother.

During the trial, the woman, who was about 12 at the time, said Mangera initially touched her knee underneath the Koran as she read but became more bold and touched under her clothes and eventually inside her underwear.

She said the abuse occurred after her younger brother was dismissed from the room.

She eventually told her father about it after it became clear he was going to ask Mangera to tutor her little sister.

It was only last year she decided to report the matter to police after undergoing IVF and qualifying as a counsellor.