Crime

Teacher Faces Imprisonment for Sexual Assault

By Web News 368

An Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced a 31-year-old teacher, Idowu Daniel, to seven years imprisonment for sexually assaulting his 16-year-old student within school premises.

Delivering the Judgement, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo held that the prosecution failed to establish the charge of defilement against the convict, as the victim failed to show up in court to testify.

The convict was charged with defilement.

She said the confessional statement by the defendant, which was made voluntarily, showed that he sexually assaulted the minor.

“The defendant admitted to have fondled the breast of the victim twice and tried to have sex with her but he could not penetrate as she was a virgin.

“The defendant is hereby convicted on the charge of sexual assault of a child,” she held.

In his allocutous the convict pleaded for mercy when he was asked if he had anything to say.

“My lord, I am very sorry for what happened. I promise it will not happen again,” the convict told the court.

The judge also lashed out at the convict for touching the survivor in a suggestive way, adding that he would have gotten life imprisonment if the minor had testified in court.

“You are a teacher and you were touching the breast of your student. You would have gone for life imprisonment if the victim had come to court to testify.”

Justice Taiwo, who had earlier sentenced the convict to five years imprisonment, however, increased his jail term to seven years without an option of fine after saying that he had been in custody for three years.

The convict, who lives at the Abule-Egba area of Lagos, was tried for a charge of defilement.

Daniel was 28 years old when he committed the offence on June 27, 2019, at 9.25a.m.

He unlawfully had carnal knowledge of his student in the biology laboratory at Anastasia Comprehensive College, Abule-Egba, Ikeja.

He was remanded sometime in July 2019, by Chief Magistrate Olufunke Sule-Amzat, in Kirikiri Prisons.

Culled/Titilayo Kupoliyi

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Crime

Evans Bags 21-year Imprisonment

By Web News 375

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, and his co-defendant, Victor Aduba, to 21 years imprisonment for kidnapping one Sylvanus Hafia.

They were accused of conspiring and kidnapping Sylvanus Ahanonu Hafia at about 5:30 pm on June 23, 2014, at Kara Street, Amuwo Odofin in Lagos and were alleged to have captured and detained Hafia and demanded a ransom of $2m.

But they pleaded not guilty to the four charges.

The judge held that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to other aspiring kidnappers.

Punch/Titilayo Kupoliyi

Crime

Pastor Gets Death Penalty for Murdering Teen for Ritual

By Web News 498

A Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, presided over by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo has sentenced a pastor, Erinmole Adetokunbo, and his accomplice Adedoyin Oyekanmi to death for killing a 7yrs old boy in Ikorodu area of the state.

Justice Taiwo gave the verdict after the defendants changed their plea from not guilty to being guilty.

The convicts were arraigned on October 30, 2017, before the Lagos State High Court on a two counts charge which borders on murder.

According to the charge sheet, Oyekanmi and Adetokunbo, on June 7, 2017, at number 6, Oke Oniburokun Street, Odokekere, Ikorodu, did conspire to murder one Kazeem Rafiu.

They were said to have beheaded Rafiu and buried the head around the church’s altar, while the body was kept in a canal.

After four years of being remanded in prison custody, the state re-arraigned the convict before the Special Offences Court on September 21, 2021, and the trial commenced.

At the resumption of trial for the prosecutor to present another witness to prove the allegations against the convict, the court was informed by the state counsel, Mrs O. A. Bajulaiye and defence counsel, Ms Anthonia Otsokwa that the convicts have decided to change their plea.

Subsequently, the judge ordered their plea to be taken and it was read to them in Yoruba language and they pleaded guilty to the two-count charges.

The state counsel, Mrs O. A. Bajulaiye, thereafter reviewed the facts of the case and urged the court to convict them accordingly.

Begging for mercy, defendant counsel, Ms Anthonia Otsokwa, told the court that the convicts have realised their offence and are remorseful for the loss of the young child.

In her judgement, Justice Taiwo noted that the case is a very pathetic one as the defendants conspired and killed a young child by cutting off his head for ritual purposes.

FRCN Abuja/Adetutu Adetule

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