Jail for former Islamic religious teacher who committed indecent acts on boy in Singapore mosque


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SINGAPORE: A mosque officer, whose job scope included leading prayers, was at his workplace when he touched a boy’s private parts on two separate occasions in 2014.

The boy, who was a minor of around 15 years old at the time, had been sexually abused multiple times by another person – an older male family member – when he was between nine and 14 years old.

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