"Sexual harassment of a number of students" at a high school in western Tehran
Reports from Iran indicate that an official of a boys' high school in a non-profit educational complex in District 2 of Tehran has been arrested following sexual harassment of a group of students.
Khabar Online reported that the families of some students noticed the issue and complained about the person in question. One of the parents of the students told this media outlet that "My son had been aggressive and extremely nervous for a few months and we even thought he had an illness. We took him to the doctor and the treatment for his aggression continued until my son told me what had happened to him at school."
According to the father of the student in question, a school official forced the children to commit immoral acts by broadcasting sexually explicit images via mobile phones.
In this context, some Iranian media outlets have released a video of the presence of parents of students who were victims of sexual abuse at school, who say that 17 of the students underwent psychoanalysis and 16 of them said that they had been sexually abused.
In a conversation with the families of the students in the film, the regional deputy education officer assures that the education department itself was one of the complainants in this case, but some parents denied this and demanded that the education department's complaint file number be announced.
In the film, the official in charge says in response to the parents' protests that "the Ministry of Education does not intend to arbitrate and is the plaintiff in the case itself."
Khabar Online writes that the images provided by the parents of the students of this school official show the aforementioned person, handcuffed and in the presence of the police, confessing that he had incited children to immoral acts by broadcasting images of pornographic films.
The students' parents say that the children are currently undergoing psychological treatment and that, despite the fact that it is exam season, they have been severely damaged mentally and emotionally.
Over the past few years, several cases of sexual assault in schools and even Quranic circles have been reported in the media, the most famous of which was the accusation of sexual assault of children by Saeed Tusi, a famous Quran reciter.
Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of parliament for the sixth term, announced his “acquittal” in February last year. He announced in a series of messages on his Twitter account that “Branch 56 of the Tehran Court of Appeals, without the signature of the court president, overturned the sentence issued against the voice and tone coach for 4 years in prison and acquitted him, with the vote of two advisors from another branch; the case documents indicate clear influence in the trial process. It had been about 2 years since the Director General of Justice had taken the case from the court.”
Source: Radio Farda
