Media and real estate tycoon Mohamed el-Amin has been charged with “trafficking” and “sexually assaulting” girls in an orphanage he founded.
File photo of media and real estate magnate Mohamed el-Amin. (Image: AFP)
An Egyptian businessman was charged with “human trafficking” and “sexual assault” on Saturday, a month after he was arrested on allegations of molesting seven girls at an orphanage he founded.
Media and real estate tycoon Mohamed el-Amin was arrested on January 8 and held in custody to investigate allegations that he had “violently sexually abused children”. If found guilty, he faces up to 25 years in prison.
The case came to public attention after a Facebook page accused the owner of the Al Mustaqbal group – formerly the owner of the CBC television network before it was sold in 2018 – of sexually abusing young girls.
A judicial source told AFP on Saturday that “witnesses” corroborated the statements made by the victims during the investigation, referring to girls at an orphanage Amin opened in Beni Suef, some 100 km (60 miles) south of Cairo .
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The source said images were found on the businessman’s phone, adding that footage was created of the orphans recounting the alleged attack.
The allegations were referred to prosecutors by the pro-government National Council for Childhood and Maternity on December 10.
Prosecutors said the victims accused Amin of regularly assaulting them “without their consent.”
“He abused his power against the orphan girls whom he sexually abused and threatened to deport if they reported him,” it said.
Prosecutors added that Amin allegedly took some of the victims to his north coast mansion, where he assaulted them and “urged them to engage in immoral acts.”
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