Court Jails Former Teacher For Life For Defiling Eight-Year-Old Pupil

A former teacher and motorcycle operator at El-Bossaa Nursery and Primary School in Epe, Lagos State, Nwatu Isaac, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old pupil on the school premises.
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja jailed Isaac for the rest of his life after finding him guilty of defilement, an offence contrary to Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Justice Oshodi held, in his judgment, that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt that the condemned convict lured the underage girl, whom he had previously taught, into the school’s male toilet on March 10, 2022, where he unlawfully had...