Mohammad Masroor — Detroit Islamic school teacher
A teacher at a small Islamic school in Detroit who was convicted by a Wayne County jury on all 15 counts of criminal sexual conduct and sentenced to concurrent terms of 35–50 years, affirmed on appeal. The year before, a Toronto court had acquitted him on similar allegations — this file states both outcomes.
Islam Convicted
- Person
- Mohammad Masroor
- Role
- Teacher at a non-profit Islamic school run from his brother's house, Detroit (2000–2003); later an imam in Toronto
- Institution
- Islamic school, Detroit (unnamed in the appellate record); Toronto mosque (from 2008)
- Location
- Wayne County, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario
- Status
- Convicted by jury on all 15 counts; convictions and sentences affirmed (2015; on remand 2017). Acquitted in Toronto (2013)
- Sentence
- Concurrent terms of 35–50 years on each first-degree count and 10–15 years on each second-degree count
Case in brief
Tier 1 · Court-proven — Michigan; the Toronto outcome is stated with it
Mohammad Masroor taught from 2000 to 2003 at a small non-profit Islamic school run from his brother’s house in Detroit, where the complainants — three of them, then aged nine to thirteen — were his students. He moved to Canada in 2008 and became an imam at a Toronto mosque. Charged in Toronto in 2011, he was acquitted there in March 2013: Justice Jane Kelly found the main witness credible and earnest but not reliable. Extradited to Detroit in November 2013, he was tried in Wayne County and convicted by a jury on all 15 counts — ten of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and five of second-degree. The Toronto acquittal and the Michigan conviction are both facts of record, and this file carries both, in that order, because a record that prints only the conviction would not be the record.
The record
Tier 1 · Court-proven
| Item | Record |
|---|---|
| Toronto outcome | March 2013 — acquitted (Kelly, J.) |
| Extradition | November 2013 — Canada to Detroit |
| Michigan conviction | By June 2014 — 10 counts CSC-I (MCL 750.520b) and 5 counts CSC-II (MCL 750.520c), three complainants |
| Sentence | Concurrent: 35–50 years on each CSC-I count; 10–15 years on each CSC-II count — an upward departure from the 108–180-month guideline range (Hathaway, J.) |
| Appeals | Convictions affirmed (2015, 313 Mich App 358); Michigan Supreme Court remand on the departure standard (July 24, 2017); sentences affirmed on remand (November 16, 2017) |
The exact day of the original sentencing does not appear in the appellate record or reporting consulted for this build — conviction and sentence were both in place by June 5, 2014 — and this file does not invent one.
Status
Serving the Michigan sentence; the controlling term is 35–50 years, the CSC-I terms running concurrently with the shorter CSC-II terms. No facility is stated; a current corrections-locator check was not run in this build.
Records requested & responses
This archive has not filed records requests in this case. The file rests on the published sources below and will be updated if court or institutional records are obtained, or if that changes.
Sources
- Michigan Supreme Court, People v. Steanhouse / People v. Masroor (July 24, 2017) — the 15 counts and statutes; the departure sentences and their affirmance path: law.justia.com
- Michigan Court of Appeals, People v. Masroor, 313 Mich App 358 (2015) — count structure and complainant ages as charged; the Toronto mosque role: law.justia.com
- Michigan Court of Appeals, on remand (November 16, 2017) — ‘we affirm’ the departure sentences: law.justia.com
- Toronto Star (June 5, 2014) — the March 2013 Toronto acquittal and Justice Kelly’s reasoning; the extradition; the Detroit conviction and sentence: meforum.org (Islamist Watch republication)
Filed October 25, 2026, from the published sources below. Minor victims are never named or identified in this file.