New details are shaking out over the alleged off-limits activities of one Broward private school teacher and his students. Last week, Pembroke Pines Police announced they were looking for Tariq Ahmad, a teacher and head of school at the Nur-Ul-Islam Academy in Cooper City. The 35-year-old is facing sex-crimes-related charges stemming from alleged abusive relationships with students in the late 2000s. Reports of the police search were followed by news of a lawsuit claiming a cover-up at the school.
Right now, a manhunt is on for Ahmad. But what hasn't been reported until now is that before the teacher's tenure at Nur-Ul-Islam Academy, Ahmad worked for the Broward County Public School District.
Nur-Ul-Islam Academy is a kindergarten-through-12-grade college prep school with around 335 students. The facility boasts a "complete education that emphasizes excellence in academics and Islamic morals and values," according to its website.
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The timing plays into the allegations that follow. According to a lawsuit filed last Friday by two alleged victims, in August 2005, Ahmad was hired by Nur-Ul-Islam Academy. "[A]fter his hiring, but before the sexual abuse of the plaintiffs occurred," the suit states, "[Nur-Ul-Islam Academy] became aware that Tariq Ahmed was credibly implicated by a family member of his in the sexual abuse of a child."
But the school "kept the information it had to itself," the lawsuit says, "not alerting any student, parent or legal authority of what it had been told."
Tariq Ahmad, Teacher Accused of Raping Students at Islamic Private School, Previously Worked for Broward County Schools | New Times Broward-Palm Beach
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