Suzak District Court (Jalal-Abad region) sentenced imam of the mosque of At-Chabark village to 21 years in prison for attempted rape of a boy. Office the court reported.
The court found the 58-year-old head of the local mosque guilty under Article 130 «Violent acts of a sexual nature against a minor» of the Criminal Code of the
The clergyman was also convicted for possession of drugs and extremism. Thus, he will spend 21 years in a colony with strengthened security regime.
The incident occurred in 2016. Mother of a 10-year-old child wrote a statement to the police, the imam was detained.
