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A teacher, who was sentenced to 15 years behind bars for molesting six students, has lost his final appeal at the Cassation Court in one of his two criminal cases.
Bahrain’s top court upheld a verdict finding the 27-year-old government school teacher guilty of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison.
The Bahraini man, nicknamed the ‘human wolf’ by social media users, reportedly met the children off-campus, with the parents’ permission, and touched them inappropriately in his car.
Last April, he was convicted in two separate cases of sexually assaulting minors aged under 14 and exploiting his position, both as an individual entrusted with the boys’ care and as a public employee.
In the second case, he was sentenced to 10 years in jail for molesting five students, but it is not known whether or not the Cassation Court issued a ruling on it.
The GDN earlier reported that the assault never went beyond molestation, with the appellant partially exposing himself to the children, but never attempting to rape them nor completely undressing in front of them.
During his first appeal at the Supreme Criminal Appeals Court, a panel of psychiatrists found the multi-subject teacher fit to stand trial, and that he could be found responsible for his actions.
According to a ‘deep psychological evaluation’ issued by Government Hospitals, the appellant admitted to having no sexual interest in adults, be it male or female, and that he discovered his attraction to children while in teachers’ college.
The psychiatric report clarified that the man did not exhibit any delusions, did not experience hallucinations, and did not have a past file at the Psychiatric Hospital.
It added that he was never molested or experienced sexual violence as a child, had no prior criminal offences, and did not use drugs or alcohol.
The primary school teacher’s actions were first brought to the authorities’ attention when the seven-year-old victim’s father reported him to the police.
According to the Family and Child Prosecution, the victim told investigators that his teacher had touched him ‘across his body and private parts’ which the teacher confessed to.
After this sexual assault was reported, a number of students came forward with similar accusations with the prosecution eventually uncovering a string of victims left in the appellant’s wake.
At his initial High Criminal Court trial in January 2024, he expressed remorse, telling judges, “I know that I made a giant mistake” and begging for a second chance.
The psychiatric report stated that the boys targeted all came from the same class, and that the appellant would be awash with regret every time he molested the children, so he would give them presents to make himself feel better, and would make them promise not to tell anyone.
“He stated in his psychiatric interview that he is overtaken by an all-consuming desire that he cannot control, which leads him to commit these acts,” the report read.
At the time of the original trial, the case became a matter of public discussion, and the Public Prosecution had to issue a statement clarifying that the assault was ‘only external’, denouncing claims that the victims sustained serious injuries or bled as a result of the assault.
Prosecutors condemned other rumours circulating on social media about the incident, such as speculation about the place of the crime or the defendant’s nationality.
The statement added that drastic measures were taken to guarantee the privacy of information in child sexual assault cases and to forbid its circulation on social media, in order to ‘protect them from attempts of exposure or exploitation’.
zainab@gdnmedia.bh
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