MEDİNE MAMEDOĞLU

Amed (Diyarbakır)- Osman E., an imam at a madrasa in a village of Amed’s Karaz (Kocaköy) district, has been arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting 25 children.

 The incident was revealed after the children told their families that the imam had sexually assaulted them. After their family filed a criminal complaint against the imam, gendarmerie teams detained the imam in the village. Then, the imam was sent to prison.

‘We will follow this case to the end’

Local sources told NuJINHA that the imam had sexually assaulted the children for years and the imam threatened the children to keep silent. “He threatened the children not to tell their families. At the end, a child told the sexual assault to her/his family,” a villager told NuJINHA. “That man should be given the heaviest punishment. If he is released, it will spark anger in the village. The children could not tell their families because they were afraid. As the villagers, we will follow this case to the end. We will never allow this incident to be covered up.”

The Children’s Rights Commission of the Amed Bar Association has announced that they will follow the case.