A Birmingham tutor has been jailed for sexually abusing his pupils and police have issued an urgent plea to parents.<\/p>\n
Sanjeev Mittal a private tutor who ran a JS Home Tutors molested two young girls during home-school lessons.<\/p>\n
His pupils were inappropriately touched when they were aged just eight and ten by Mittal, who had been hired to help them prepare for their 11-Plus exams.<\/p>\n
They were abused at his home in Selwyn Road, Edgbaston and one girl was also assaulted at her home while her mother was in another room.<\/p>\n
NSPCC alerted police on November 24, 2016 with concerns over an eight-year-old being touched by Mittal.<\/p>\n
The youngster revealed how the 49-year-old touched her feet and legs during the two-hour study sessions at his home.<\/p>\n
Officers from the force\u2019s specialist Child Abuse Team launched an immediate investigation before hearing from another mum who reported her daughter was regularly abused for two years.<\/p>\n
Mittal was arrested on 26 November 2016 \u2013 and again on 19 June 2017 when more allegations emerged \u2013 but he denied inappropriately touching the girls.<\/p>\n
He instead claimed they had invented the stories and that one mother had a grudge against him.<\/p>\n
Mittal was found guilty of nine counts of sexual assault of a child under 13 and jailed for five years on Friday, May 25.<\/p>\n
The sentence was welcomed by Julia Mcsorley, of the Crown Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cSanjeev Mittal abused his position of trust and authority to inappropriately touch his two young victims for his own sexual gratification.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe victims had been entrusted in his care, but he exploited this trust to sexually assault them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to take this opportunity to thank the victims and their families for the courage and support in helping us to bring this dangerous offender to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officers at West Midlands Police are now urging anyone who suspects their children may have suffered abuse at the hands of Mittal to come forward.<\/p>\n
West Midlands Police Detective Constable Sarah Jones said Mittal is likely to have tutored \u201chundreds\u201d of children and has urged any concerned parents to get in touch.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cHe was offering tutoring services for the last 10 years and his mobile phone had more than 100 contact numbers for parents who we believe used his services.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf any parents suspect their children may have suffered at Mittal\u2019s hands then I would ask them to get in touch.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis youngest victim was scheduled to sit the 11-Plus in September, that\u2019s what her parents employed Mittal to prepare her for, but since the assaults she\u2019s been too scared to work with a private tutor and won\u2019t now take the examination.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat illustrates the long-term impacts child sexual abuse can have: it\u2019s not just the immediate physical or psychological effect of the offending but also the longer term impacts which can do lasting damage to education, work and life prospects.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish the girls all the very best for their futures and thank them for their courage in speaking out and disclosing Mittal\u2019s offences to their parents.<\/p>\n
“Their brave actions have undoubtedly saved other children from being abused by him\u2026and for that they, and their parents, can be rightly proud.\u201d<\/p>\n
People can speak to West Midlands Police\u2019s specialist Child Abuse Team in confidence by calling 101 or alternatively parents or children can contact the NSPCC.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Birmingham tutor has been jailed for sexually abusing his pupils and police have issued an urgent plea to parents. Sanjeev Mittal a private tutor who ran a JS Home Tutors molested two young girls during home-school lessons. His pupils were inappropriately touched when they were aged just eight and ten by Mittal, who had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":26685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,112],"tags":[1198,1199,1196,1197],"class_list":["post-26684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-abused","tag-girls","tag-sanjeev-mittal","tag-tutor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}