By Samuel Adegbite
Nwatu Isaac, a teacher has been slammed with a life imprisonment sentence by a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja for defiling an eight-year-old girl at El-Bossaa Nursery and Primary School, Epe.
Justice Rahman Oshodi, in his judgment, also ordered that Isaac’s name be entered in the Sex Offenders Register in accordance with the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency Law.
The court found that the teacher had sexual intercourse with the child in the school’s male toilet on March 10, 2022.
The prosecution’s case was that Isaac, who had previously taught the girl and later conveyed pupils from the school on his motorcycle, asked her to fetch a piece of paper from the toilet before pushing her inside, locking the door and sexually assaulting her.
The court heard that the child subsequently told her father what had happened when she returned home.
Her mother, who examined her that evening, testified that she saw blood on the girl’s pants and vagina and that the child’s school uniform was dirty.
A medical examination conducted later at the Mirabel Centre found an easily dilatable introitus, an absent hymen and marked laxity of the anal sphincter.
The examining doctor, Dr Olatunji Olubukola Elizabeth, testified that the vaginal findings were consistent with penile penetration.
Although the examination was conducted more than two months after the alleged incident, the court held that the medical evidence corroborated the child’s account of penetration.
