“Sexual Harassment of a Number of Students” at a High School in Western Tehran
Reports from Iran indicate that one of the officials at a boys’ middle school in a non-profit educational complex in Tehran’s District 2 has been arrested following sexual harassment of a group of students.
Khabbar Online has reported that families of some students became aware of the matter and filed a complaint against the person in question. One student’s parent said in an interview with the outlet: “My son had become aggressive and severely nervous for several months, and we even thought he had fallen ill. We took him to a doctor and continued treatment for his aggression until my son told us what happened to him at school.”
As the student’s father stated, one of the school officials distributed obscene images through mobile phones, forcing the children to commit immoral acts.
In this regard, some Iranian media outlets published a video showing the presence of parents of sexually harassed students at the school, stating that 17 students were psychologically evaluated and 16 of them said they had been sexually harassed.
The deputy director of education for the district assured the families of students in this video that the education ministry itself was one of the complainants in this matter, but some parents rejected this claim and demanded that the education ministry’s complaint file number be disclosed.
This official stated in response to the parents’ objections in the video that “the education ministry has no intention of extortion and is itself the complainant in the case.”
Khabbar Online writes that images presented by the parents of students of this school official show the person in question handcuffed and in the presence of police confessing that he incited children to commit immoral acts by distributing obscene film images.
The students’ parents say that children are now undergoing psychological treatment and despite being in the exam season, they have been severely harmed psychologically and mentally.
Over recent years, several cases of sexual assault in schools and even Quranic circles have been reported in the media, the most famous being the sexual assault charges against Saeed Toosi, a prominent Quranic reciter, against children.
Mahmoud Sadeghis, a representative in the sixth Parliament, announced his “acquittal” in the month of Bahman last year. He announced in a series of tweets on his Twitter account that “Branch 56 of Tehran’s Court of Appeals, without the signature of the head of court, with the vote of two judges from another branch, overturned the sentence against the voice and intonation instructor based on 4 years imprisonment and acquitted him; the case documents indicate clear interference in the judicial process. The director general of the judiciary had taken the case from the court about 2 years ago.”
Source: Radio Farda
