A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced a 41-year-old teacher, Chukwu Ndubuisi, to life imprisonment for defiling a six-year-old pupil of Mind Builders School, Lagos.

Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya sentenced Ndubuisi after finding him guilty of a one-count charge of child defilement filed against him by the Lagos State government.

The judge, who held that the prosecution had proved his case against the defendant beyond reasonable doubt, said the quality of evidence against the defendant was compelling.

Justice Ogunsanya held that the defendant usually sent the survivor’s friend to call her and that the first time the defendant defiled her was in the female toilet, adding that the second time was in the art room.

The judge 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.


The court held that the account of the survivor and that of her mother was uncontroverted, and corroborated each other.

The judge also dismissed the submission by defence witnesses 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.

The defendant’s counsel, Mr. O.C. Olagunju, who pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy, prayed that no case of improper behaviour has ever been brought against the defendant nor had he any case at any police station until this case.

But the prosecuting counsel, Mr. 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.

The convict (Ndubuisi) was the art teacher of the school as at June 2016 when the offence was committed.

He was arrested and initially arraigned before Ogudu Magistrate Court on a charge of forceful penetration.

He pleaded not guilty before his case was later transferred to High Court before Justice Ogunsanya, following advice by the Director of Public Prosecutions ( DPP).
The matter was later taken up by the State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA).

SOURCE: https://guardian.ng/news/court-sentences-lagos-teacher-to-life-jail-for-defiling-school-pupil/

Good

They should hang paedophilia