Moroccan Teacher Sentenced to One Year for Bigamy, Court Reduces Initial Penalty

If the teacher’s prison sentence was reduced on appeal to one year of imprisonment, it is because the judges removed two charges against her, in particular that of breach of trust and fraud, reports the newspaper Akhbar Al Yaoum.

This was also possible thanks to the presentation of elements showing that it was her first husband who had swindled her by extorting 500,000 dirhams from her, the same source specifies.

However, the teacher was ordered to pay 50,000 dirhams to her first husband as compensation instead of a fine of 100,000 dirhams mentioned in the verdict rendered at first instance.

The detainee has already spent 9 months in the local Toulal 2 prison in Meknès. Theoretically, she still has three months left to regain her freedom.

While her husband was incarcerated, the teacher had remarried a military captain. Together, they had a child. After his release from prison, the first husband filed a complaint against his wife. Prosecuted for adultery, polyandry, forgery of documents, breach of trust, fraud, the Court of First Instance of Meknès had sentenced the teacher to two years in prison.