{"id":765135,"date":"2026-05-01T04:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/765135\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:11:14","slug":"nyc-religious-leader-allegedly-sexually-abused-10-year-old-girls-in-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/765135\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC religious leader allegedly sexually abused 10-year-old girls in mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A religious leader of a Queens mosque was arrested for allegedly groping and molesting multiple young girls, according to authorities and reports. <\/p>\n<p>Tajul Islam, 55, was arrested on Monday by the Queens Child Abuse Squad on charges of sexual abuse, forcible touching, and unlawfully dealing with a child for multiple alleged disturbing incidents that occurred over a week in April, according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.86428571;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39250166\" width=\"363\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/forcible-touching-2-counts-unlawfully-126668462.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Tajul Islam, a 55-year-old man, with text for NYPD Crime Stoppers.\" class=\"wp-image-39250166\"  \/>Tajul Islam, 55, was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing multiple girls at the Masjid Bilal Queens Islamic Center in Jamaica. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>Islam, a religious leader at Masjid Bilal Queens Islamic Center in Jamaica, allegedly approached a 10-year-old girl inside the storefront mosque, grabbed her breast, and touched her inner thigh, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/04\/religious-leader-sexually-abusing-jamaica-mosque\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">criminal complaint obtained by QNS.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The creep cleric, who also lives in the mosque, committed the same act again on Monday \u2014 approaching and groping another 10-year-old girl, the complaint alleged. <\/p>\n<p>He was cuffed roughly four hours after the most recent incident unfolded, the outlet said. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5585997;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39250168\" width=\"920\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/11434-nyc-religious-leader-tajul-126751871.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior of Masjid Bilal Queens in Jamaica, NY.\" class=\"wp-image-39250168\"  \/>Islam was arraigned on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was ordered held on $25,000 bail. Google maps<\/p>\n<p>Islam was arraigned on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was ordered held on $25,000 bail by Judge Sharifa Nasser-Cuellar, who also issued temporary orders of protection, court records show. <\/p>\n<p>The NYPD is now asking other possible victims or individuals with knowledge of the incidents to come forward by calling the NYPD\u2019s Sex Crimes Hotline at 1-212-267-7273 or 1-646-610-7272, the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A religious leader of a Queens mosque was arrested for allegedly groping and molesting multiple young girls, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":765136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5248,158438,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,63465,4413,10410,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-765135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-metro","tag-mosques","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-pedophiles","tag-queens","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116497371320608382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}