Amid Search For Teacher Accused Of Rape, 3rd Alleged Victim Comes Forward
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COOPER CITY (CBSMiami) -- As authorities search for a former Cooper City teacher accused of sexually abusing and raping students, there was a new development on Tuesday.
"We now have a third victim who's come forward," said Attorney Scott Mager.
He and his two law partners stood outside the Nur-UL-Islam Academy in Cooper City with large signs, attorneys say yet another former student is now claiming abuse at the hands of this former teacher, Tariq Ahmed.
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"A grooming process occurred," he claimed. "A sexual abuse set of acts occurred, same sort of m.o, same sort of damaged inflicted upon the person."
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Attorneys said the three girls allege that sometime between 2006 and 2008 Ahmed molested them, setting up off campus meetings, sometimes using code on the chalk board to set the time and place. They said the school knew and covered it up.
"They will not be allowed to stick their heads in the sand or intimidate or put down kids or do any acts which offend the very nature of which our society is built on, the protection of kids," said Mager.
The school's not responding to the latest allegation, but released a statement last week saying, "Recently, we have become aware of disturbing allegations regarding a former teacher." It went on, "Upon learning of these allegations the academy immediately suspended the teacher's employment."
Many parents now know of these allegations.
"We can't say that he did it or didn't do it. We don't know," said parent Aisha Kacmoussa who said she had daughter who attend the school.
CBS4's Ted Scouten asked her, "Would you trust your daughters with him?"
Kacmoussa responded, "yeah" and went on to say her daughter was there all the time and she never had a problem.
Attorneys tell us there's an arrest warrant issued for Ahmed but they said he either fled the area or is in hiding.
"This is not going to stop. We are going to uncover all of the victims in this particular case and we're going to bring these defendants to justice," said Mager.
The attorneys for the three former students are asking if anyone has information or knows possibly where Tariq Ahmed may be to call Pembroke Pines Police.
Pembroke Pines police are not commenting on the case, saying it's been turned over to the Broward State Attorney's Office. The State Attorney is not commenting either saying it's an open investigation.
"Khurrum Wahid, attorney for Ahmad, told CBS 4 News in an email on Tuesday night that he would not comment on the case at this time."
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