A 56-year-old New Jersey school board president on Wednesday told a jury in his civil sexual abuse trial that he denied sexually abusing his wife, who was a middle school teacher, and told a jury in his civil sexual abuse trial that he was among six “godly wives.” The four said they met when they were 18 years old.
Wasim Muhammad, chairman of the Camden Schools Advisory Board, took to the stage to explore his multiple relationships, acknowledging that they are “the exception, not the rule” and “very controversial.” According to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
A 45-year-old woman has accused Muhammad, a Garden State pastor and community activist, of sexually abusing her when she was a minor. She claims the alleged abuse began in 1994 when he was a seventh-grade social studies teacher and continued for several years.
A 2021 lawsuit accuses Muhammad, the father of a 17-year-old, of dragging his former student to a porn theater and forcing her to have sex with a stranger while creepily watching her return to Camden after leaving the state for several years. has been done.
“I ask myself why this happened,” the plaintiff testified last week, according to the paper. “Why did he do this to me? Who would do this to a 13-year-old girl? There are no answers for me.”
School officials called the allegations “heinous” and denied any wrongdoing.
Mr. Muhammad stated that he married the plaintiff in 1997, but the plaintiff denies that the two were ever married.
According to the Inquirer, the defendant claimed on the stand that he married the plaintiff when she was about 30 years old, after she returned from the South and they began living together.
His legal marriage was to his high school sweetheart, Stephanie, and four others, including his second wife, whom he met when he was 18 years old while working at a local shopping mall, also agreed to his Islamic faith. It’s below. The woman, a shopping mall employee, also married Muhammad in 1997.
He also acknowledged another marriage that later broke up.
The plaintiff’s attorney, Jeffrey Fritz, said that four of the six Muslim wives were 18 years old when he met them, then asked, “Do you see a pattern here?”
“If that’s what you want to say,” Muhammad replied, according to the newspaper.
Muhammad reportedly said the relationship with the plaintiff ended in 1998 after Stephanie found out and objected.
Mr. Muhammad continues to serve on the Camden School Board for more than 10 years. I have been on leave since January, but NJ.com reported.
Closing arguments in the civil trial were scheduled for Thursday.
