Photo by Keith Heffintrayer.
Mohammed "Mido" Osman Ahmed, 34, formerly of Horsham, was apprehended last year in Iraq via an Interpol Red Notice.
Last April, Interpol had to issue a Red Notice to apprehend a former Upper Dublin Sports Center tennis coach in Iraq.
Mohammed “Mido” Osman Ahmed, an Egyptian national residing on the 3800 block of Blair Mill Road in Horsham, was wanted for groping three teenage girls six years ago, authorities said. He was not voluntarily returning to the U.S., they said, and had flown to Egypt during the investigation by law enforcement.
Now, a year later, Ahmed has been sentenced to time served and probation as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Court records show Ahmed pleaded guilty on April 19 to three counts each of felony unlawful contact with a minor and misdemeanor indecent assault without consent, with Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Wendy Rothstein sentencing him to 157 days to 23 months in county jail followed by five years’ probation.
Additional counts of felony sexual assault by a sports official and related offenses were dropped in exchange for Ahmed’s plea. With time served, Ahmed began his probation period along with sex offender supervision.
Sentencing notes indicate Ahmed must register as a sex offender for 25 years, undergo a sexually violent predator assessment and a psycho-sexual evaluation, and comply with all recommendations. He was also ordered to stay away from the Upper Dublin Tennis Center.
Ahmed also faces possible deportation to Egypt during his sentence, according to The Reporter.
The investigation began in October 2018, and all three victims testified during Ahmed's preliminary hearing.
“He admitted that he did touch three different juvenile victims, all of whom played tennis at the Upper Dublin tennis center or worked there as well. He touched all of them in private places and did so for his own sexual gratification and he communicated with them in order to facilitate that,” said Assistant District Attorney Caroline Goldstein, adding he was in a position of power to not only get the girls alone, but also take advantage of their trust as a coach, in the Mercury report.
The first victim told police Ahmed touched her buttocks and held her by her wrist, made inappropriate sexual comments to her, and invited her, unsuccessfully, to visit the exterior tennis courts, police said.
“Wow, I don’t think I can wait that long,” was Ahmed’s response when the victim told him her birthdate, per the affidavit.
A second teenage victim told police in November 2018 that she had two unwanted interactions with Ahmed, which involved picking her up off the floor, remarking about her weight, squeezing her tightly, grabbing her buttocks under her shorts, and then grunting as he held her, per the affidavit and Mercury report.
The third victim told detectives Ahmed slapped her buttocks without her consent while they were alone, causing her to quickly leave the sports complex, per the affidavit.
Ahmed was eventually located in Iraq and extradited to Montgomery County to face the charges on Nov. 15, 2023, according to court records.
“The Upper Dublin Police Department never stopped working on this case. Even though they knew he was not in the country anymore they kept trying to find him. They never gave up on it and neither did the victims,” Goldstein said.
Read further details on the case here.
