Imam charged with raping a 12-year-old boy repeatedly in the mosque.

Warning - this story gets into descriptive detail. Fucking uncomfortable.

[...]the 12-year-old boy, who cannot be named, said he was singled out by Khan following the evening prayer on about half a dozen occasions, the first of which was in around August 2009.

"On each occasion it happened at the mosque, usually after the formal prayers in the main prayer hall ," Mr Khan said.

"The defendant would request him to lay out his red prayer mat in a different part of the mosque. That is when the remaining prayer would be completed individually and not in congregation.

"He seems to suggest that usually the defendant would take him through the door marked 'private' and into the sitting room area, and into the room with cushions on the floor used by committee members.

"On occasions, then passing through another door in the big room, the classroom, going to the corner at the back."

Mr Khan said the defendant chose different places within the mosque that were not covered by CCTV cameras, one of which was the area near the building's bins.

"He (the boy) said once it happened by the bins downstairs. That, he recalled, was the first time.

"The defendant had asked him to place a bin bag into the bins then followed him into that area."

Mr Khan said the boy described the defendant asking him before the alleged abuse 'Do you want some?' and when he replied in the negative, the defendant would say 'For God's sake, just say yes'."

Independent