THE principal of an Egyptian school was sentenced to 12 years in jail with hard labour for seeking “sexual favours” from the mothers of pupils and from the wife of a job seeker, court sources said on Monday. A court sentenced the private school administrator, Samir Wahdan, to five years of forced labour for asking to have sex with the mothers of three pupils in return for granting special privileges to their children, the sources said. They said the mothers had refused to give in to the blackmail. The court also gave the 54-year-old Wahdan an additional seven years of hard labour for having had sexual relations with a woman in exchange for finding her husband a job at the Gamal Abdel Nasser secondary school. – AFP
Monday February 18, 2002