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Iran school official jailed over sexual abuse of boys
TEHRAN, July 15, 2018 (AFP) – A supervisor at a Tehran boys’ high school
has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and 80 lashes for sexual abuse of
minors, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency said Sunday.
Reports of assaults against several dozen pupils at a private school in
the west of the capital sparked outrage in the Iranian press when they
emerged in late May.
The scandal even prompted the intervention of Iran’s supreme leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who demanded the judiciary take the necessary
measures to punish the culprit.
On Saturday a court found the school supervisor guilty of “sexual assault
against minors”, “incitement to debauchery” and “undermining decency”, ISNA
said.
But the court dismissed accusations of rape after submitting the minors to
medical tests, it added.
Rape carries the death penalty in Iran.
Parents of some minors have said that the supervisor incited their
children to carry out sexual acts after showing them pornographic videos on
his mobile phone, local media reported.
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