Teacher bags life jail for defiling 9-year-old pupil

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a teacher, Peter Jacob, to life in prison for defiling a nine-year-old pupil with special needs. Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution efficiently proved the charge of defilement against the defendant. The judge held that the evidence of the defendant and the three defence […]

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a teacher, Peter Jacob, to life in prison for defiling a nine-year-old pupil with special needs.

Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution efficiently proved the charge of defilement against the defendant.

The judge held that the evidence of the defendant and the three defence witnesses (staff of the school where the defendant worked) were self-serving.

She said, “The prosecution witness 1 (survivor) properly identified the defendant when she gave her evidence and her evidence was properly corroborated by the other three witnesses.

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“The prosecution has successfully established the ingredients of the offence against the defendant.

“The defendant is Godless, brutally wicked, lustful and an act unbecoming of a teacher.

“I find him guilty of the charge and he is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment.”

Soladoye said that the convict should have his name registered in the sexual offence register as maintained by Lagos State.

The prosecution told the court that the convict committed the offence some time in 2019 at Thescol College, CMD Road, Magodo, in Ikeja.

They submitted that the survivor, who suffered from dyslexia, was in the primary school section of the school which also housed the secondary school section where Jacob worked.

The offence violated Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015. (NAN)