Teacher bags life jail term for defiling six-year-old pupil

A teacher, Chukwu Ndubuisi, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for defiling a six-year-old pupil of Mind Builders School, Lagos, Nigeria.

Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja has convicted the teacher after she found him guilty of a one-count charge of child defilement brought against him by the state government.

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, 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, and 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 the Police Station following which the mat­ter was investigated and a test was conducted on the survivor at Ikosi Health Center which revealed that the survivor had been defiled.

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

Justice Ogunsanya 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 sends 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 “bum bum” into her “bum bum”.

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