Yesterday The Lowell Sun (Lowell, Massachusetts) posted an article about an incident in a community swimming pool.
The article reports:
A 22-year-old Syrian refugee is behind bars after only two months in the United States after he was accused Thursday night of inappropriately touching a 13-year-old girl at a state-run swimming pool in Lowell.
In Lowell District Court on Friday, Emad Hasso, of Lowell, was ordered held on $25,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty via an interpreter to one count of indecent assault and battery on someone under 16.
Judge Stacy Fortes set the bail over the defense attorney’s objections, because Hasso’s only ties to this country are his family members with whom he lives.
We need to remember that pedophilia is an acceptable practice in Islam. Men in their 40’s marry 11-year-old girls, and young boys are frequently kept as sex slaves in the Islamic culture. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini provides a lot of insight as to this aspect of Islamic society.
Defense attorney William Kittredge said Hasso, who speaks little English, receives assistance from the International Institute of New England, a nonprofit group with an office in Lowell that offers information and resources to refugees and immigrants.
Kittredge said Hasso told him that while he was swimming in the pool he may have “accidentally bumped” the girl, but he denies inappropriately touching the teen or speaking to her.