The Ikeja domestic violence and sexual offences court has sentenced Adegboyega Adenekan, a school supervisor, to 60 years imprisonment for defiling a two-year-and-11-month-old pupil in 2016.
Presiding judge,Sybil Nwaka, handed down the sentence after convicting Adenekan of a lone-count charge of defiling the pupil.
Nwaka described Adenekan, as “wicked, conscienceless and an animal who is not worthy of walking on the streets of Lagos”.
Adenekan had pleaded not guilty to the charge the Lagos state government filed against him.
The judge said, “Schools should not cover up teachers who sexually abuse children. Parents should not be carried away by aesthetics of schools. This case may just be the tip of the iceberg as a lot of our children are suffering in silence,” she held.
“Parents should be bold enough to confront teachers and school management because a lot of our children are suffering in silence.
“I advise or recommend that the education and social welfare ministry workers should visit schools randomly to give them a check.”
The victim had told the judge how she was defiled by the 47-year-old supervisor of the school.
Adenekan was at the Victoria Garden City (VGC) branch of the school at the time of the incident.
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