Muslim Teacher Guilty of Sexual Abuse

(York, England) A 28-year-old Muslim teacher, Jabir Ahmed Jolkipar, was convicted on three counts of child sexual abuse after a jury deliberated for 70 minutes.

Recorder Guy Kearl QC adjourned sentence for a probation report and ordered Jolkipar, a Bangladeshi national, to surrender his passport.

“The likelihood is it will be a term of imprisonment,” he told the teacher, whom the judge said had “lost his former standing” in the community. Jolkipar’s barrister, Mark Bury, said he was no longer teaching children.

Jolkipar, who was bailed on condition he lives at Sylhet Close, Bradford, had denied three charges of sexual abuse, but was convicted by the jury after 70 minutes in retirement.

Jolkipar claimed he only kissed the girl on the nose once and not on the lips as the girl testified. In any event, it appears that his days of officially teaching children are over.