High school teacher Abusali Rahman used his iPhone in his top pocket while secretly taking up-skirting images of teenagers while working in seven schools, Bolton Crown Court heard.
Rahman would also follow behind girls walking upstairs to film and traced youngsters’ social media profiles to “nudify” their images alongside pornography.
He started by sharing sexualised deepfake images online, before escalating to upskirting and voyeurism.
The 37-year-old was caught after the mother of one girl came across a picture of her daughter in her school uniform, next to graphic sexual images while she was scrolling on X.
In other images he had super-imposed one girl’s face on a woman wearing a bikini and another in a PVC suit, the court heard.
Further images of young females had been posted by the account, with captions such as “daddy”, “agegap” and “ddlgkink” (daddy dom/little girl).
Rahman admitted a total of 21 offences in May, including 12 counts of taking indecent photographs of children by upskirting, four counts of publishing an obscene article, three counts of making indecent pictures of children, one count of voyeurism and one count of distributing an indecent image of a child.
Rahman’s crimes took place over nearly two years between December 2023 and June 2025 against 15 girls, all aged between 13 and 16, at several secondary schools in Bury, Bolton and Salford.
The defendant was arrested in June 2025 after a parent found an image of their child in school uniform being circulated on social media, according to Greater Manchester Police.
Sky’s chief North of England correspondent Greg Milam said “there are potentially hundreds of children who would have come into contact with Abdul Rahman during the course of his offending.
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“Police have said they’ve been in touch with all of the schools where he worked, and they’ve been in touch with the children they know to have been affected, the families of the children they know to be affected.”
Rahman “took upskirt photographs in classrooms and in corridors at some of those schools”.
He also used AI technology to sexualise regular photos he took on his phone and pictures taken from some of the schoolgirls’ social media profiles.
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