Muslim scholar who’s a convicted child sex offender helps oversee Islamic boarding school in Elgin
Posted January 27, 2024 9:55 am
After he was convicted in 2016 of molesting a girl and sexually abusing a young woman, Mohammad Saleem was told by a judge that he’s no longer allowed “at or in the Institute of Islamic Education.”
That’s the religious boarding school in Elgin the Muslim scholar founded years earlier. He was running the school when he committed the crimes that now require him to register as a child sex offender for the rest of his life — with his name, photo and address in an online database maintained by the Illinois State Police.
But Saleem still helps supervise the school. And, though Illinois law bars child sex offenders from living within 500 feet of a school, Elgin police records show his current residence is “well within” that distance.
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