Boy "hit by Glasgow mosque teacher and told not to tell his mother" A schoolboy was told not to tell his mother after a teacher at a mosque hit him and left him bleeding, a court has heard. The 13-year-old claimed he was struck on a number of occasions by Shabir Rabbani, 59, while he was at the Zia-Ul-Quran mosque and religious school in Pollokshields in Glasgow. Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that the child went to the mosque between 2009 and 2011 before leaving to go to another one. He said he left after Rabbani hit him on the back of the neck one day and scratched him, causing him to bleed. The teenager claimed Rabbani told him: "We will take care of it; you don't need to tell your mum." He was giving evidence at the trial of Mrs Riffat Rabbani, 51, and Mr Shabir Rabbani, who face a total of 25 charges of assault between December 2002 and February 2011. Mrs Rabbani faces 14 charges of assault while Mr Rabbani faces 11 charges of assault. The 13-year-old said he was in Mrs Rabbani's class for a while then moved to Mr Rabbani's class. He told the jury he saw three other children in his class being hit. Procurator fiscal depute Pauline Henderson asked: "Did you ever talk?" and he replied: "Sometimes, yes." He was asked what happened to him if he talked and he said: "I would be hit and shouted at." Asked how many times he was hit the teenager replied: "Several times." The witness told the jury he was hit "about 20 times" a week then added "less than 20 maybe." He said that it was in the first or second week after joining Rabbani's class that it started. Asked where he was hit, he said it was his face and his head. The teenager told Miss Henderson that he was never injured before adding that on one occasion his neck started bleeding when Rabbani "scratched him a bit" when he hit him. He said: "They said it's okay we will take care of it. You don't need to tell your mum. The boy said he was given wet tissues and the scratch stopped bleeding. Both accused, from Herriot Street, Pollokshields, deny the charges and the trial before sheriff Martin Jones QC continues.