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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Giengen an der Brenz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · 2026

Germany: Islamic religious teacher convicted on 18 counts for abusing boys in the dormitory he ran

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Appellate history

  • 2026

    No appeal filed within the deadline; verdict final.

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Islamic religious teacher (Hodscha) running a student dormitory

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The boys lived in a dormitory the defendant ran in his capacity as their religious teacher — instruction and residential custody combined in one religious authority.

  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

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Proceedings

  1. 2026-05-01 · conviction and sentence; final (no appeal filed)

    Landgericht Ellwangen, Germany. A 35-year-old Islamic religious teacher was convicted on 18 counts including rape, sexual abuse of dependants and sexual abuse of children against seven boys aged 12–17 at a student dormitory he supervised in his religious-instructor role. He was sentenced to eight and a half years with a five-year ban on working with male minors. Neither side appealed and the verdict became final.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • religious-instructor authority combined with residential custody of boys

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institutional reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Hohe Haftstrafe für Islamlehrer nach Missbrauchsfällen in Schülerwohnheim', IslamiQ, 3 May 2026.

Reports the 18-count conviction, the sentence, and the dormitory-supervision role.

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https://www.islamiq.de/2026/05/03/hohe-haftstrafe-fuer-islamlehrer-nach-missbrauchsfaellen-in-schuelerwohnheim/ Corpus classification: institutional-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 c6bb9e65663d302c6daba28af7e58ff92c7b6f1e3289512db8e9416370e5a070
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2026-07-20 · Preserved
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