MELAKA - The Singaporean founder of a tahfiz education centre in Malaysia, has pleaded not guilty and claimed trial at a Melaka court to five charges of sexual assault and committing unnatural sex on students. Muhammad Firdaous Abdul Rashif, 40, was charged in two...
He faces a jail term of up to 20 years and caning.
He was alleged to have performed unnatural sex acts against two male students at the same location in March. Melaka police chief Zainol Samah said the elder brother, the principal of two tahfiz centres in Tanjung Minyak and Alor Gajah, had allegedly sexually abused three boys while his brother, the warden, had sexually abused three other boys.
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