45-Year-Old Teacher Gets 15-Year Sentence For Raping 8-Year-Old Girl In Ekiti

45-year-old Oluwagbemi Alabi, a teacher, has gotten a 15- year sentence for raping an eight-year-old girl in Ekiti state.

Alabi, who committed the offence in 1999, had his first court appearance on August 25, 2023,  and he had since then faced rape charges.

‘Alabi Oluwafemi, sometime in 1999 in Ikere Ekiti within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did rape an eight-year-old girl, at the time of committing the offence.

The offence was contrary to and punishable under Section 358 of the Criminal Code, Cap 30, Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria, 1978’  the prosecutor had submitted in the charging document.

In his testimony before the court, the victim, who said Alabi was his teacher and neighbour, said,

‘He touched my breast each time he came to teach me at home. I did not understand anything about what he was doing until he raped me in our sitting room when my mother travelled to Lagos and left me and my sister at home.

He removed my cloth and used it to clean the blood and sperm and threw it away. I later ran to our neighbours weeping, they thought I was missing my mother, but I did not tell them what happened’.

‘I was afraid anytime I saw him in the class. He came across me on Facebook sometime in 2012, sent me a friend request and I declined.

In year 2023 again, he started disturbing me. I reported the matter to the law enforcement agents. I was advised to ignore him. Thereafter, he started sending disturbing and annoying videos and messages to me, referring to the past ugly incident. When I could no more bear it, I decided to take a legal action against him’  she also added.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that  the prosecutor, Kunle-Shina Adeyemo, called two witnesses and tendered the confessional statement of the defendant, evidence of the defendant’s conversations with the nominal complainant, petition and printout from a screenshot of chats among others to support his line of argument.

‘The sexual intercourse with the victim could not have been consensual in that, she, as an eight-year-old girl, was a minor and lacked the capacity to consent to sexual intercourse.

The confessional statement of the defendant also showed without equivocation that the defendant indeed committed the offence.

This issue is resolved in favour of the prosecution and the defendant is found guilty as charged. One of the aims of sentencing is to serve as deterrent. The defendant is hereby sentenced to 15 years imprisonment without an option of fine’ Justice Lekan Ogunmoye of Ekiti state High Court, Ado Ekiti Division submitted in her ruling-Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you