Affaire des talibés enchaînés et maltraités : La justice clémente avec le maître coranique
After the initial charges of human trafficking, slavery and forced labour were reclassified as violence, assault and deprivation of food to minors, Koranic teacher Gora Fall was sentenced by the Mbour High Court to two years in prison, suspended, and a fine of 250,000 CFA francs.
The events, which have sparked intense outrage in recent weeks, concern two 9-year-old talibés, A. Diack and GA Diop, who testified about their inhumane living conditions. They described food deprivation, running away, and harsh punishments, including being locked in a sheep pen after it had been cleaned with bleach. “I only had one meal a day, sometimes I asked my classmates to share their meal,” said A. Diack. Gora Abdou Diop added: “I ran away, and when I was found, I was locked in the sheep pen for just one day. During the day, the sheep were taken out, the pen was washed with bleach, and then we were locked in. He gave me breakfast and lunch, but no dinner. At night, I slept in a small room next to the pen, on bags spread out on the floor.”
Gora Fall, who has been caring for 17 talibés since 2008, admitted locking the children up but maintained that he "only wanted to educate them" and provided them with two meals a day.
The presiding judge severely reprimanded him: "No one forced you to take these children. If you couldn't feed them, you had to return them to their parents. Would you treat your own children like this? Giving a child only one meal a day is unacceptable." The prosecutor, believing that Gora Fall "had planned to keep the children for two months in these conditions, beating them in a room intended for abuse," reclassified the facts as assault and battery on minors, requesting five years in prison and a fine of 200,000 CFA francs. The court ultimately opted for a two-year suspended sentence and a fine of 250,000 CFA francs.
Commentaires (4)
la maltraitance des enfants est un fléau dans ce pays
Diffusion de fausses nouvelles mandat de depot, torture de petits enfants , clemence. Tarikhas yi patasse bou tangueu la
La justice est terriblement laxiste avec ces prétendus maîtres coraniques et avec les chauffards
On n’y comprend rien
deux ans de prison avec sursis + guenons...changez rien, petit à petit vous finirez au fond des chiottes...
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