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  • Arabic teacher jailed 21 years for sexual assault

    Arabic teacher jailed 21 years for sexual assault

    An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court yesterday sentenced an Arabic teacher, Oladosu Sakiru to 21 years’ imprisonment for attempting to sexually assault his 13-year old girl.

    Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced Sakiru after he pleaded guilty to the amended two-count charge of attempted sexual assault by penetration and indecent treatment of a child.

    The judge berated the convict for breaching the trust the parents of the survivor had in him for enrolling  their children in the islamic school.

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    Justice Oshodi  said that religious leaders, teachers such as the convict held a sacred place in the society and when such  individuals broke the trust placed in them by preying upon children, the court must respond with appropriate severity to reflect society’s condemnation and to deter others from committing similar acts.

    Justice Oshodi noted that the evidence before court  deduced a pattern of predatory behavior as the convict subjected the survivor into inappropriate touching and forced himself on her.

    According to him, when the convict is confronted with his action, he seeks refuge in the often repeated phrase “it was the work of the devil”.

    “As an Arabic school teacher, you occupy a position of significant trust, that trust extended not only to the 13-year-old  child, the one you victimised but also to her parents and the entire community who look to you for spiritual and moral guidance.

  • Man, 28, charged with sexual assault

    A 28-year-old man, Ekene Marinze, who allegedly sexually assaulted a 16-year-old, on Thursday appeared before an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State.

    Marinze, whose address was not provided, is facing a count charge of sexual assault, to which he pleaded not guilty.

    The Prosecutor, Insp. Lucky Ihiehie, told the court that Marinze committed the offences from October to December 2018 on Adebimpe Street, Mile 12, Lagos.

    Ihiehie said that the defendant sexually assaulted the teenager  by touching her breasts and rubbing her entire body with his hands.

    “The complainant, who is a neighbour to the defendant, cautioned him to stop but he didn’t, and was always harassing her sexually.

    “ She later told her aunt,” Ihiehie said.

    He  noted that the offence contravened Section 263 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The Magistrate, Mrs E. Kubeinje, granted the defendant  bail in the sum of N100, 000 with two sureties in like sum.

    She ordered that one of the sureties should be related to the defendant while both sureties should show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

    She adjourned the case until March 26 for mention.

  • My husband raped my two daughters, woman tells court

    A trader, Mrs Tope Ogba on Monday told an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offence Court, that he her husband Mr Gabriel, allegedly raped their two adult daughters.

    Led in evidence by Mrs K A Momoh-Ayokambi, the Lagos state prosecutor, Tope also alleged that her husband, defiled their underage daughter and almost set her ablaze when she reported him to the authorities.

    Gabriel, is charged with sexually molesting his daughters who are 25, 20 and 13-years-old at their residence at Oke-Ogbe town, Atura Bus stop, Badagry Lagos.

    Tope told the court that she was unaware of the sexual molestation which had gone on for an unspecified number of years until it was revealed by the youngest daughter.

    She said: “I did not know what was going on, it was when he assaulted my third daughter that I got to know what was going on and I later heard about the assault of my older daughters from people outside.

    “When I asked my older daughters about the rumours, they initially denied it, I got to know about the assault of my third daughter from her teacher.

    “I confronted my husband, he said that it was a gang up and conspiracy against him by our daughters, I told him that a young child cannot come up with such allegations against him.

    “Ever since I confronted him, I have had no peace at home. He beats and threatens me.”

    The trader said a month after he was reported to the authorities, he became aggressive towards her.

    While being cross-examined by Mr E. Obelu, Gabriel’s defence counsel, Tope said she did not know when the sexual molestation of her daughters began.

    “I do not know when he started molesting our daughters. I have been the breadwinner of the family.

    Following Tope’s testimony, her third daughter who is 13-years-old testified against her father.

    During her testimony, Justice Sururat Soladoye, ordered that everyone in the courtroom gallery should vacate due to the witness being underage.

    Following the teenager’s testimony, the case was adjourned until March 7, for continuation of trial.

  • AAU suspends ASUU chairman over alleged sexual assault

    Authorities of the Ambrose Alli University ( AAU  ), Ekpoma have suspended the institution’s chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Prof. Monday Igbafen over alleged sexual harassment.

    Prof. Igbafen who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy was alleged to have been threatening female students with marks for sex.

    A press statement signed by the university’s spokesman, Mr. Edward Aihevba, said the suspension followed the arraignment of Prof. Igbafen before the Senior Staff Disciplinary Committee (SSDC) on allegations of gross misconduct bordering on sexual harassment and threat of marks for sex.

    Aihevba said Prof. Igbafen has earlier been found culpable and indicted by an investigative panel of the University for the Offence of sexual harassment.

    He said a family of a female victim had threatened to drag the institution before the ICPC if it failed to bring Prof. Igbafen to book.

    According to the statement, “On receipt of the petition, the university management asked for his comments. His response was found unsatisfactory. He was therefore arraigned before the SSDC.

    “As due process demands, he has been suspended from the university pending the determination of the allegation leveled against him.

    “He is therefore not allowed to participate or involved in any university duties or functions except those related to SSDC during the period of his suspension.”

    Responding, Prof. Igbafen said he would expose the Vice Chancellor, Professor Ignacious Onimawo, to the world that blackmail does not work within the university.

    Prof. Igbafen said the suspension was part of a grand plan to intimidate ASUU chapter of the university.

    He said the VC has a personal vendetta against him.

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    According to him, “It is a grand plot that will fail. The VC is desperate because he has so many things to hide. He is looking for a weak ASUU to manipulate.

    “That petition was written against two of us when I was a Lecturer II in 2011. I answered it that my hands are clean. Is that why he is denying me of my promotion?

    “All these things are plot to destabilise the Union. It is a cheap blackmail. The VC is desperate to decimate ASUU. I know he is behind all the petitions against me.”

  • Court remands bursar for alleged sexual assault

    An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos at the weekend ordered that Pius Edu, a bursar at Christ Redeemer School, Oworonshoki, Lagos, be remanded in prison custody, pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPPs).

    Edu, 21, who lives at 55, Oworo Road, Oworonshoki, Lagos, is being charged with sexual assault.

    Chief Magistrate Mrs. B. O. Osunsemi ordered that the case file be sent to the DPP for the advice.

    Prosecutor Raphael Donny alleged that the accused committed the offence on October 15 about 3:30 pm at 50, Oworo Rd., Oworonshoki, Lagos.

    He alleged that the accused tied the six-year-old girl’s mouth with handkerchief and sexually assaulted her.

    The offence, Donny said, contravened Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015 (Revised).

    The magistrate adjourned the case till December 3.

  • Man charged with sexual assault

    A 41-year-old man, Sunday Solomon, was yesterday arraigned at an Ogba Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for alleged sexual assault and robbery of two women, Mrs. Aluko Olokun Abisola and Mrs. Omololu Olufunmilayo.

    Solomon is facing a five-count charge of conspiracy, sexual assault and robbery before Magistrate T. A. Ojo.

    Prosecuting Sergeant Kenrich Nomayo alleged that the defendant committed the offence on October 25 about 6am at ‘U’ turn bus stop, Abule Egba, Lagos.

    Solomon was alleged to have sexually assaulted Mrs. Abisola by dipping his hand into her private part and stripping her naked.

    According to the prosecution, “the defendant stole N40,000 from Mrs. Abisola and N32,000 from Mrs. Olufunmilayo.”

    Sgt. Nomayo alleged that the defendant assaulted the duo by beating them up, adding that he used a wheel spanner to hit them on the knee cap, which caused them bodily harm.

    Solomon, however, pleaded not guilty.

    Mrs. Ojo granted him bail at N150,000 with two sureties.

    She said one of the sureties must be a relation of the defendant.  The magistrate adjourned the case till December 12.

  • Driver held for ‘raping’ two-year-old girl

    The police in Lagos have arrested a commercial bus driver for alleged defilement of his neighbour’s two-year-old girl.

    Sola Ewulo, 38, a resident of Taiwo Street, Agbado-Ijaiye was arrested on October 24 after the victim’s mother reported that sperm was seen dripping from her body.

    Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal said the victim’s mother had allegedly left her in the custody of the suspect to run an arrand, an allegation Ewulo refuted.

    Edgal said: “The mother of the victim had on that day, left her in the care of the suspect and dashed into the neighbourhood to buy some provisions.

    “When she returned after a couple of minutes, she could not find her daughter nor the man she left her with.

    “Much later, she saw her daughter on the corridor of the house scratching her private parts and she complained about the pains she was experiencing.

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    “On closer examination by her mother, she noticed some whitish substance dripping out of her private parts.”
    Alarmed by the discovery, Edgal said the victim’s mother asked her who did that to her and she mentioned Ewulo.

    He said the suspect would be charged to court.

    However, Ewolu denied the allegation, insisting that he went out for a job he was called to do.

    He said: “I was not even around. It is not true that the mother left her with me. She usually left her with neighbours not anyone in particular. That day, I was not even around.

    “I was told that sperm was seen on the child’s body and she said I was the one that did it. I do not know anything about it. I have three daughters and so, how will I do that to a little girl?”

  • Bill Cosby to be sentenced for sexual assault

    Bill Cosby is due to be sentenced for his sexual assault conviction from earlier this year in a two-day proceeding starting on Monday.

    The 81-year-old star of The Cosby Show was found guilty in April of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004.

    The court in Norristown, Pennsylvania, has scheduled two days for the sentencing, to give witnesses the opportunity to speak before the judge.

    Cosby, who has been under house arrest since his conviction, will also be offered the chance to make a statement before Judge Steven O’Neill hands him his sentence.

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    His lawyers have said he will appeal the conviction, which observers say could push the case up to Pennsylvania’s highest court and take several years.

    More than 50 women have come forward to publicly accuse Cosby of sexual assault spanning several decades.

    But Cosby’s conviction on three counts of aggravated indecent assault refers solely to accusations from Constand, a former employee at Temple University in Philadelphia, Cosby’s alma mater.

  • Kindergarten teacher on trial for child abuse, pornography

    A 31-year-old former kindergarten teacher faces trial in Germany on Monday for more than a dozen incidents of sexual assault between 2012 and 2018 and creating child pornography by filming his crimes.

    The man, who led a kindergarten in the south-western city of Heilbronn, is accused of at least 19 cases of assault against a child who was six years old when the abuse started.

    Most cases allegedly took place in his home.

    Defence lawyer Thomas Amann said in advance of the trial that his client who could be handed a 15-year prison sentence for the crimes would confess and was willing to seek therapy.

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    The defendant was detained in March.

    It took more than a year after he was caught distributing child pornography for the Protestant church, his employer to fire him.

    Police are investigating the reasons for this.

    A spokesman for the church said that none of the other children at the kindergarten were assaulted.

  • Labourer charged with sexual assault

    A 23-year-old labourer, Peter Ochi, who allegedly assaulted three schoolgirls sexually, was on Monday brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.

    The accused, who resides at 9, Bishop Hugh St., College area of Ogba, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of breach of peace and sexual assault.

    Police Prosecutor Clifford Ogu told the court that the accused committed the offences on Feb. 27 at Jerare Summit Secondary School, Ogba.

    Ogu said the accused, a non-teaching staff member in the school, invited the girls of ages 12, 14 and 15 to a corner and started touching their private parts.

    “One of the girls told their school counsellor what happened and the accused was arrested for further questioning.”

    The offences violated Sections 134 and 168 and of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The accused, on conviction, may be jailed at least two years.

    The accused, however, denied the charge.

    In her ruling, Chief Magistrate Taiwo Akanni granted the accused bail in the sum of N100, 000 with two sureties in like sum.

    Akanni said the sureties should show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government and adjourned the case until April 23.

    NAN

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