Special Majlis member accused of child abuse

Special Majlis Male member, Mohamed "Kaanal" Nasheed, H. Fodhooge, has been brought to court on charges of child abuse on Wednesday. 

The state is charging Nasheed for forcibly making sexual advances on a minor boy, said the Attorney Generals Office. 

In 2004, Nasheed was alleged to have brought one of his students at Dharmavantha School to the staff room after class hours, under the pretext of making illustrations for a book on AIDS. Nasheed was alleged to have shown the grade 10 student pictures of homosexual, pornographic nature on the internet. 

Nasheed was then said to have proceeded to show the student more websites of this nature, while implying that he had always wanted to touch the student. He is alleged to have physically made his intentions clear by touching his student in inappropriate areas. 

The student made these facts known to his peers at a café the following day, and further revealed that Nasheed had offered him Rf 1,000 in plain sight of his friend just outside the school toilet, when there were only a few students around. 

The Attorney General's Office has said that it had filed several other counts of homosexual and paedophilic behaviour on Nasheed's part. 

Haveeru Daily

Oct 19, 2006

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