Posted on 06/13/2003 9:49:15 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
Pierce County prosecutors say a former Muslim cleric who pleaded guilty to a weapons charge in a terrorism investigation molested a girl in his family.
Charging documents say the wife of Semi Osman, 33, told investigators that an 11-year-old girl in the family recently disclosed that Osman touched her sexually. Prosecutors charged him with three counts of first-degree molestation.
Osman has pleaded not guilty in Superior Court. Judge Sergio Armijo ordered him held in lieu of $50,000 bail. Osman also is being held by immigration officials pending a deportation hearing related to an earlier conviction.
In April, U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly sentenced Osman to 11 months in prison with credit for time served, meaning he was free from custody that week.
He was turned over to immigration.
Osman, a native of Sierra Leone, was arrested last year in an investigation of a Seattle mosque suspected as a potential al-Qaida training camp.
He was living in Tacoma.
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