ABU DHABI // A Bangladeshi Quran instructor has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, to be followed by deportation, for sexually abusing a seven-year-old Asian girl.
Abu Dhabi Criminal Court heard that the victim was receiving Quran lessons with her brother from the defendant. The brother saw the abuse and reported it to his father, who in turn reported it to police.
The defendant confessed to the crime and in court asked for a pardon, reported Al Ittihad, the Arabic-language sister paper of The National.
The court also sentenced two Muslims to 100 lashes for adultery and sentenced a non-Muslim woman, who was with one of the defendants, to 6 months imprisonment followed by deportation.
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