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    41-Year-Old Lagos Teacher Jailed For Life For Consistently Having Sex With 6-Year-Old Student

    Funke BusariBy Funke BusariFebruary 13, 2023 Top Stories No Comments4 Mins Read
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    Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, on Monday sentenced a teacher, Chukwu Ndubuisi, 41, to life imprisonment for defiling a six-year-old pupil of Mind Builders School.

    The trial judge handed down the sentence to Ndubuisi for his act of forceful penetration on the minor.

    According to the judge, the fact, circumstances and quality of evidence against the defendant were compelling.

    The defendant committed the offence in June 2016.

    He was first arraigned at an Ogudu Magistrate Court on a charge of forceful penetration, which he denied.

    Following Ndubuisi’s arraignment, he was later transferred to State High Court based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPPs.

    He was charged before the court on a one count charge of child defilement.

    Justice Ogunsanya cited several authorities, while handing the judgement to the defendant, noting that the prosecution proved his case against the defendant beyond reasonable doubt.

    The court noted that the first time the survivor told her mother of her experience was when she was discussing the case of a seven-year-old girl that was defiled and killed and which went viral.

    She said the survivor whispered to her mother that she wanted to discuss something with her.

    The court noted that they went outside and the survivor narrated her experience to her, pleaded with her mother not to tell her father and brother.

    The court noted that the mother told the father, following which they went to her school but the art teacher was not around.

    She noted that the parents reported the matter at Omole Police station following which the matter was investigated and test conducted on the survivor at Ikosi Health Centre which revealed that the survivor had been defiled.

    She said the matter was later taken up by the Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, DSVA.

    The judge held that the account of the survivor and that of her mother was uncontroverted, corroborated each other and that they gave a good account of the assault. 

    The court noted that the defendant usually send the survivor’s friend to call her and that the first time the defendant defiled her was in the female toilet and that the second time was in the art room.

    She said the survivor told the court that sometimes her teacher (defendant) asked her to remove her uniform and put his “bumbum” into her “bumbum.”

    “At another time he called her into the art room, he put her on the table, parted her panties and put his thing into my thing.”

    She said the survivor told the court that when the defendant is finished, he would clean up the survivor with tissue paper.

    The court noted that the defendant had unhindered access to the child and defiled her several times.

    Justice Ogunsanya discountenance the evidence of two prosecution witnesses who are medical doctors for being contradictory, pointing out that they did not come as expert witnesses.

    She also dismissed the submission by defence witnesses that that the incident was not recorded on the school’s CCTV.

    She upheld the result of the test conducted at the Mirabel Centre which showed that the survivor had torn hymen and reddish vulva and that there was evidence of forceful penetration.

    She therefore convicted the defendant as charged.

    Counsel to the defendant, O.C. Olagunju pleaded with the court passionately to temper justice with mercy saying that no case of improper behaviour has ever been brought against the defendant nor has he ever had any case at any police station until this case.

    But the prosecution, Jubril Kareem argued that the law under which the defendant was charged does not give the court any discretion.

    He urged the court to impose the mandatory sentence stipulated in the law.

    Justice Ogunsanya subsequently sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment.

    Chukwu Ndubuisi Jubril Kareem Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya Mind Builders School O.C. Olagunju
    Funke Busari

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