DR ‹ › Last week, the unit handling cases of violence against children at the Kenitra Primary Court convicted a French national teacher employed at a French mission school in the city. She was sentenced to one and a half years in prison after being charged with «insulting Islam and publicly breaching decency through obscene acts involving minors under the age of eighteen». The verdict follows a legal process that lasted around three years. The court also banned the defendant, who had been free on bail, from contacting or approaching the two minor students for five years, starting after the completion of her sentence. In addition, she was ordered to undergo psychological treatment while serving her sentence and to pay a fine of one million dirhams to the state, along with symbolic compensation of one dirham to each of the students' parents, according to Assabah. According to the case file, the charges stem from a complaint filed by the students' parents, who alleged that the teacher engaged their sons in discussions about homosexuality, provided lessons on the subject, and made derogatory remarks about Islam, both verbally and in writing. The juvenile unit of the Kenitra judicial police carried out an investigation, during which several students were interviewed. The teacher denied the accusations throughout the inquiry. The French mission school suspended the teacher in 2023, immediately after the case was referred to the courts, as she was nearing retirement after years of service at the institution.
