52-year-old teacher rapes 5 year old pupil in classroom

The Lagos State Police Command has
arraigned a 52-year-old school
teacher, Isaac Ikiabeke, for allegedly
raping a 5-year-old pupil in the
Ikorodu area.
Ikiabeke, who is the proprietor of the
school, Brighter Glory School, located
on Etunrere Street, raped his victim
after school hours.
The victim, five-year-old Pat (not her
real name), said Ikiabeke had
allegedly raped her 10 times.
She said,
“He has been doing it for some time.
He has done it more than 10 times. I
am not the only one. He does it with
some of us after school hours. I could
not tell anybody because he said if I
did he would beat me.”
The victim’s grandfather explained
that his attention was drawn to the
sexual assault by some of Pat’s
classmates.
He said he was shocked, as well as
disappointed in Ikiabeke, whom he
regarded as a respectable man.
He said,
“Pat and her younger sister stay with
me and they attend the school. I
never suspected anything initially,
except that I observed she would be
holding her belly and turning on the
bed and when I asked her what
happened, she would say she was
having stomachache.
“It was one of her classmates that
told me what the school owner had
been doing to her and I quickly went
to report at the station, after which
he was arrested.”
The matter has since been brought to
the attention of the Lagos State
Office of the Public Defender.
A police source said that they got
complaints from two victims.
He said a three-year-old pupil, who
was equally raped by the suspect,
was in a critical condition in a
hospital.
He said,
“There were actually two pupils that
we were told he raped. The atrocity
had been going on for a long time
before he was arrested.”
Pat has since been taken to the
hospital for treatment.
The police on Monday arraigned
Ikiabeke before a Yaba Chief
Magistrates’ Court on one count of
unlawful sexual intercourse.
The charge read,
“That you, Isaac Ikiabeke, on June 9,
2015, at about 3pm, at Brighter Glory
School, Etunrere Street, Ikorodu,
Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial
District, did have unlawful sexual
intercourse with a minor, (name
withheld) aged five years and thereby
committed an offence punishable
under Section 258 (1) of the Criminal
Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.”
The defendant pleaded not guilty to
the charge and elected summary
trial.
The case was adjourned till August
10, 2015.
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