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Teacher Pressured Student To Convert To Christianity, Parents Say
The District 300 student secretly converted from the Islamic faith to Christianity, the parents allege.
ALGONQUIN, IL — The parents of a Jacobs High School student claim a former history teacher coerced their teenage daughter into renouncing her Islamic faith and converting to Christianity. A Daily Herald report shares the frustrations Yosuf Chuadhry and Amena Alvi faced after learning of the secret conversion.
Chaudhry and Alvi have filed a complaint in federal court against the former history teacher, Pierre Clause, Community Unit High School District 300, and D300 Superintendent Fred Heid. Clause was fired in August 2019 after more than 20 years with the school district, according to the Daily Herald.
Chaudhry and Alvi told the Daily Herald they believe Thorsen groomed and indoctrinated their daughter starting in her freshman year, gave her a Bible to study and introduced her to more adults who further pressured her to convert to Christianity. The girl's parents also found text messages on her phone urging her to became emancipated from her parents, according to the Daily Herald report.
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