GISBH: Eight people charged in court, religious teacher jailed for ten years for abusing three boys

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KUALA LUMPUR – Eight people have been charged in courts in three states with threatening, abusing and physically sexually abusing children since police launched Op Global early last month, including raids on charity homes linked to GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISBH).

On September 12, a 19-year-old girl pleaded not guilty at the Seremban Sessions Court to four charges of abusing four girls, aged five and six, by burning their arms with a hot iron spoon at a shelter in Seremban. August.

On September 18, businessman Mohamad Riza Makar, 39, who is a member of GISBH, pleaded not guilty at the Putrajaya Magistrate’s Court to charges of threatening a 25-year-old woman in a parking lot in Precinct 4 on September 9.

The next day (September 19), three teaching assistants from a madrasah (religious school) in Kuala Pilah were charged by the Seremban Sessions Court, Negeri Sembilan, with fourteen counts of physically sexually abusing five children in 2022 and 2023.

Muhammad Habib Noh Mohd Zairi, 21, Muhammad Khunais Fathie Khabil, 20, and Ahmad Nadzful Izham Azizan, 22, pleaded not guilty to the charges, which were read to them separately, before Judge Datin Surita Budin.

On September 20, Muhammad Fawzun Azim Ismail, 20, another teaching assistant at a madrasah in Kuala Pilah, pleaded not guilty at the Seremban Sessions Court to six charges of physically assaulting four boys, aged 12 and 13, at the madrasah last year.

Meanwhile, on September 26, the Klang Sessions Court sentenced a religious teacher, Muhammad Barur Rahim Hisam, 23, to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to abusing three boys by beating them with a stick and putting his knee on the chest of one of pressing them. of the victims at two schools affiliated with GISBH.

He was also ordered to be given a good behavior bond for five years with a surety of RM10,000, failing which he will be jailed for six months.

Today (October 4), Mohd Syahid Hanapiah, 35, a caretaker of a charity home affiliated with GISBH, pleaded not guilty in the Selayang Sessions Court to charges of abusing a six-year-old boy by caning the victim at a charity home. in Bandar mansions, Rawang.

Earlier, media reported that police launched Op Global early last month and raided charity homes linked to GISBH on the peninsula, suspecting them of being involved in the exploitation of children and religion.

A total of 572 victims were rescued and 359 GISBH followers, including the company’s top management, were arrested. — BERNAMA

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