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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Muslim Paedophile Teacher spared Jail time

Teacher Nazira Rafei spared jail over student sex case

The Daily Telegraph
March 05, 2009 12:15pm

A HIGH school teacher who had an indecent relationship with a 15-year-old student has been spared jail but will be registered as a sex offender.


Nazira Rafei, 26, of Fawkner in Melbourne, was found guilty of committing an indecent act with the boy but cleared of a charge that she had sex with him.



"treat me like I'm your sex slave, abuse me, tell me to shut the f up and to pinch ... my nipples".



She was also cleared of a second charge of an indecent act with a child under 16. The County Court had heard the married science teacher struck up a friendship with the boy outside school and they began a relationship.

Judge Liz Gaynor convicted Rafei and sentenced her to an 18-month community-based order with 150 hours of community work.
She has also been placed on the sex offenders register.

Judge Gaynor said Rafei was immature and had behaved inappropriately, breaching the student-teacher trust in the most serious way.
But she accepted her behaviour was not predatory. "You leave this court with a conviction against your name and a life of the most extraordinary difficulty," she said.

The court heard she had led a sheltered life and was forbidden from mixing with boys at school and university.

Islamic Justice: Blinded by the light of Allah

Blinded Iranian seeks eye-for-eye justice
SMH
March 5, 2009
An Iranian woman living in Spain said she welcomed a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-an-eye justice against a suitor who blinded her with acid.


Ameneh Bahrami, 30, told Cadena SER radio, "I am not doing this out of revenge, but rather so that the suffering I went through is not repeated." Late last year an Iranian court ruled that the man - identified only as Majid - who blinded Ms Bahrami in 2004 after she spurned him, should also be blinded with acid, based on the Islamic law system of "qisas", or eye for an eye retribution.

But Ms Bahrami, who moved to Spain to get medical treatment after the attack, said on Wednesday that, under Iranian law, she is entitled to blind her attacker in only one eye, unless she pays €20,000 ($39,000), because in Iran women are not considered equal to men.

"They have told us that my two eyes are equal to one of his because in my country each man is worth two women. They are not the same," she told Cadena SER. Ms Bahrami explained that she was now waiting for a letter from the court to go back to Iran for the punishment to be carried out. Cadenda SER said that, after undergoing treatment in Barcelona, Ms Bahrami recovered 40 per cent vision in one eye but since then doctors have not been able to prevent her from going totally blind.

She also suffered horrific burns to her face, scalp and body.
She said she now survives on €400 a month in aid from the Spanish Government. The woman said Majid would be blinded by having several drops of acid put into one eye, whereas she had acid splashed all over her face and other parts of her body. No one at the Iranian embassy was available for comment. AP