Respected Islamic Tutor Lands In Trouble for Allegedly Caressing 13-year-old Girl's N*ked Bum (Photo)

Posted by Thandiubani on Tue 24th May, 2016 - tori.ng

A respected Islamic cleric has landed in trouble after he was charged to court for sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl left in his care.

Wali Muhammed

A court has heard how an Islamic tutor slipped his hand under a copy of the Koran and groped a 13-year-old girl’s thigh as she read from the holy book. The man is also accused of slipping his hands under the girl's skirt to caress her n*ked bum.

Wali Muhammed, 41, also touched the teenager’s bottom while teaching her at his home in upmarket Belgravia, central London, jurors were told.

According to MailOnline, the teenager initially thought Muhammed was a ‘bit of a klutz’ - but police were called after she complained to her mother, Southwark Crown Court heard.

The prosecutor, Tim Forster told the court that the girl was first sent to Muhammed’s home to study the Islamic holy book by her mother in October 2014.

He said: ‘The lessons were arranged by her mother and the woman who was supposed to be taking the lessons or giving the lessons was the wife of this defendant.

‘It was her understanding that there would be no one else present apart from other children.

‘As lessons went on the defendant - who is a teacher at a school - would come home and be present during some of the lessons.’

The girl - who cannot be named for legal reasons - was sat on the floor with other pupils while Muhammed was on the sofa.

‘According to the victim the defendant, while sitting on the sofa, would start touching her feet with his feet.

‘Initially she thought that was just him being clumsy or, as she put it, a bit of a klutz.’

But the court heard that Muhammed went on to twice touch the girl in a sexual manner - once on her bottom and once on her thigh.

‘Firstly on one of the occasions she says that as she was kneeling in front of him he touched her bum with, it appears, his foot.

‘On another occasions she says that whilst he was kneeling or sitting down next to her and she had the Koran open in front of her he slid his hand onto her thigh under the Koran.’

After witnessing the incident and becoming uncomfortable with it, the girl told her mother.

Police were then called who took a statement from the girl.

Muhammed was later arrested and in interview with police denied doing anything improper.

Muhammed, of Semley Place, Belgravia, denies two counts of sexual assault.

The trial continues.