A Quranic master, Gora F., confined two of his talibés aged 9 and 10 years in a sheep pen since the Tabaski, forcing them to eat cattle feed. This inhumane situation that occurred in Joal, in the south-east of Dakar, was put to an end thanks to the intervention of an anonymous local resident who alerted the gendarmerie. On Tuesday evening, a resident of the Mboudaye district contacted the gendarmes to inform them that two children were being held in deplorable conditions. The military immediately went to the scene and discovered the two boys chained in the middle of the sheep, in an unsanitary enclosure filled with animal waste and hay. The victims, visibly weakened, were released and taken to the paediatrics of the local health centre, while their master was arrested. Interrogated, Gora F. A justified his gesture by qualifying the children de “fugueurs” and affirming vouloir les “corriger”. However, the two talibés have firmly contested his declarations.
Joal: Chained and confined for a month in a sheep pen, 2 talibés fed on cattle feed to survive
