article_snippet.sent: Sharmeena Begum, 15, was raised by Sharmeena Begum uncle Shamim Miah, a devout Muslim and former religious scholar.
article_snippet.sent: her uncle Shamim Miah, a devout Muslim and former religious scholar encouraged Sharmeena Begum to pray each dawn before classes at Bethnal Green Academy in Tower Hamlets.
article_snippet.sent: Then Sharmeena asked to open Sharmeena own bank account and Sharmeena gave the cash to Sharmeena,’ said Mr Miah.
article_snippet.sent: Sharmeena also pressed to keep Sharmeena passport in Sharmeena bedroom and we allowed that too.
article_snippet.sent: I have known Sharmeena since Sharmeena was born,’ Mr Miah said.
article_snippet.sent: Sharmeena grew up in my house with Sharmeena mother Shahnaz, my sister.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miah explained that Sharmeena’s father, Mohammad Uddin, had not often lived at my house because Sharmeena’s father, Mohammad Uddin work took Sharmeena’s father, Mohammad Uddin away so often.
article_snippet.sent: Sharmeena then came downstairs and told Sharmeena grandmother that Sharmeena had extra classes at school.
article_snippet.sent: When Sharmeena went missing, Sharmeena alerted Sharmeena father and told her father her father must go to the academy and warn teachers what might happen to other girls.
highlights_snippet.sent: Sharmeena Begum was raised by uncle who was former religious scholar .
  