Defendants sentenced to total of 66 years in prison in ‘child marriage’ case involving cult leader’s six-year-old child
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In the case related to the “religious marriage” of a 6-year-old child in Istanbul, a Turkish court sentenced father Yusuf Ziya Gümüşel to 20 years, mother Fatıma Gümüşel to 16 years and eight months, and Kadir İstekli, person to whom the child “was married,” to 30 years in prison.
Gümüşel was the founder of Hiranur Foundation affiliated to İsmailağa cult. His daughter filed a criminal complaint about him and said that he “married” her with one of the followers of İsmailağa cult, and that she had been sexually abused throughout her childhood.
In the first hearing held on January 2023, the court decided to impose a publication ban and confidentiality order.
The father and the 29-year-old man to whom the child was married were being held in pre-trial detention, while the mother was being tried without arrest.
The prosecutor’s office demanded punishment for three defendants on the charges of “sexual abuse of a child” and “qualified sexual assault.”
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