Overview
- Tajul Islam, 55, was arrested Monday by the NYPD’s Queens Child Abuse Squad on charges that include sexual abuse and forcible touching, with a child endangerment-related count reported by some outlets.
- A criminal complaint says he approached two 10-year-old girls inside Masjid Bilal Queens Islamic Center in Jamaica and groped them on April 21 and April 27.
- The arrest came about four hours after the Monday episode described in the complaint, according to the reporting.
- In Tuesday’s arraignment before Judge Sharifa Nasser-Cuellar, he pleaded not guilty, was held on $25,000 bail, and received temporary orders of protection for the children.
- Detectives are seeking additional victims or witnesses, and some reports say he lived at the mosque and had no prior arrests, details not confirmed by police.