Teacher rapes pupil in toilet

A Health Teacher, Adeniran Adebayo, at a
private school has been remanded in prison
after a 10-year-old primary four pupil’s narrated
to the police of how he had allegedly raped her in
the school toilet.
Health teacher, Adeniran Adebayo, remanded
over alleged rape of 10-year-old student
The victim said her health teacher threatened to
flog her if she made a noise while he had sex
with her in the toilet.
The incident reportedly happened at a private
school on Olateju Ilesanmi Street, Baruwa, Ipaja
area of Lagos.
She said one of the female teachers in the
school, however, heard her cry and barged into
the toilet, forcing Adebayo, a father of two, to
stop and hurriedly dress up.
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Narrating the incident to a Lagos State Chief
Magistrate’s Court at Ebute Meta on Wednesday,
the Investigating Police Officer from the State
Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, said
the victim repeated the account three different
times.
He said: “I interviewed the victim after the
matter was brought to the SCID. She said on the
fateful day, she was in school after the closing
hours and was waiting for her younger brother,
who attended the same school, so they could go
back home together.
“While waiting, she decided to get busy with her
assignments. She said it was while she was
doing the assignment that the teacher came and
said she should follow him.
“He then took her to a toilet within the school
premises and threatened to cane her if she
screamed, unzipped himself, undressed the
pupil and made love to her.
“The girl said she was crying while this was on.
It was a female teacher, who was passing by
that heard her cry. The female teacher came
closer to have a better look and immediately the
suspect saw her, he quickly zipped up. The pupil
said the female teacher told him that being a
teacher, he should never have taken advantage
of the girl.”
The police officer said after the victim repeatedly
affirmed the account, he decided to call the
supposed witness.
“When I called her and interviewed her, she said
she didn’t see anything. I called the girl again,
and she narrated the same story to me,” he
added.
The Chief Magistrate, O.O. Olatunji asked the
defendant if the story was true.
But reacting to the report the teacher, Adebayo
said: “I am the health teacher of the school. I
married five years ago, and have two sons.
There are six male teachers in the school. On
that day, I didn’t call the girl. I only stood at the
gate and asked her and her brother to go home.
That was all.
“I was surprised that after four days, they came
to my office and arrested me. The toilet in
question has never even been used by
anybody.”
The chief magistrate in his reaction said the
account of the suspect was not credible.
“Kids hardly lie, especially when they are
between the ages of six to 11. And that’s why I
find it hard to believe the account of the
defendant. People like you should not be in the
society. If like you said there were six male
teachers in your school, why did she decide to
pick only you? It’s such a big shame,” he said.
Present in the court were the victim and her
father. The school management was not
represented.
Earlier, the police prosecutor, Etim Nkankuk, had
asked the court to remand the suspect in prison
pending the release of legal advice from the
Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
Nkankuk had said the crime was regrettable
because it happened within the school premises
“where the character of the victim was
supposed to be developed and built.”
He said the victim sustained injuries in the
course of the act.
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The defence counsel, Olaitan Olabode, had
insisted that the alleged offence was bailable.
Olatunji, in his ruling said: “The defendant is
granted bail in the sum of N300,000 with two
sureties in like sum. The sureties should also
deposit the sum of N50,000 into the account of
the Chief Registrar.
“One of the sureties must be a blood relation of
the defendant. The case file should hastily be
duplicated for legal advice from the DPP.
“Meanwhile, the defendant is ordered to be
remanded in prison, pending the perfection of his
bail terms.”