{"id":4497,"date":"2010-03-03T10:55:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T10:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/03\/03\/all-men-make-mistakes-what-abuser-told-parents-of-boy-victim\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:30:02","slug":"all-men-make-mistakes-what-abuser-told-parents-of-boy-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/03\/all-men-make-mistakes-what-abuser-told-parents-of-boy-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018All men make mistakes\u2019 &#8211; What abuser told parents of boy victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Religious teacher Atta Ur-Rehman caged for six years<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"278\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/AttaurRehman_180x232.jpg\"\/>A RELIGIOUS teacher sexually abused a 12-year-old boy \u2013 and then tried to justify what he had done by telling his victims furious parents \u2018All men make mistakes\u2019.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Atta-Ur-Rehman, 38, from Sheffield was jailed for six years this week after sexually abusing his 12-year-old victim during a religious lesson at the boys\u2019 home in Rochdale in May 2009. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The court was told the victim was alone with Ur-Rehman in the study of his family house in Rochdale, while he was giving the boy Quran-reading lessons, when he was abused. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe boy, who was upset and embarrassed, told his mother about what happened, and his parents decided to confront Ur-Rehman with the allegation.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nUr-Rehman at first feigned ignorance, but then asked the boy&#8217;s parents for forgiveness \u2013 sensationally claiming that \u2018all men make mistakes\u2019.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The boys\u2019 furious parents immediately contacted the police. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Detective Constable Kirsty Simcox said praised the young boy for his \u201cimmense courage\u201d in reporting the abuse. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Ur-Rehman abused the trust the victim&#8217;s parents placed in him in the most terrible way. It has been a horrific experience for the boy, and I hope that he and his family can move on from this after today,\u201d she said.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;The boy showed immense courage to confide in his mother, and thankfully his parents then came to the police to ensure justice could be done. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;I hope this case sends a clear message that any report of abuse will be fully investigated by trained officers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious teacher Atta Ur-Rehman caged for six years A RELIGIOUS teacher sexually abused a 12-year-old boy \u2013 and then tried to justify what he had done by telling his victims furious parents \u2018All men make mistakes\u2019. &#13; Atta-Ur-Rehman, 38, from Sheffield was jailed for six years this week after sexually abusing his 12-year-old victim during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}