Egypt media tycoon charged with sex assault against orphan girls

An Egyptian businessman was charged on Saturday with “human trafficking” and “sexual assault” a month after he was arrested over accusations that he abused seven girls in an orphanage he primarily based.

Media and precise property tycoon Mohamed el-Amin was arrested on January 8 and held in custody pending investigations into accusations that he “sexually assaulted kids utilizing pressure”. He now faces as a lot as 25 years in jail if found accountable.

The case received right here to public consideration after a Fb internet web page accused the proprietor of the Al-Mustaqbal group — beforehand the proprietor of the CBC television group sooner than it was provided in 2018 — of sexually assaulting youthful girls.

A judiciary provide instructed AFP Saturday that “witnesses confirmed the testimonies of the victims” by means of the investigation, referring to girls at an orphanage opened by Amin in Beni Suef, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Cairo.

The availability talked about photos have been found on the businessman’s phone, together with that recordings have been produced of the orphans recounting the alleged assault.

The accusations have been referred to the prosecutor’s office on December 10 by the government-affiliated Nationwide Council for Childhood and Motherhood.

The prosecution talked about the victims accused Amin of typically assaulting them “with out their consent”.

“He abused his energy in opposition to the orphan women, whom he sexually assaulted and threatened to expel in the event that they reported him,” it talked about.

The prosecution added that Amin allegedly took among the many victims to his villa on the North Coast, the place he assaulted them and “requested them to have interaction in immoral acts”.

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