A school teacher, Nwatu Isaac,has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja,for defiling an eight-year-old pupil of El-Bossaa Nursery and Primary School, Epe in Lagos State.
Penpushing reports that Justice Rahman Oshodi, delivered the judgment on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, and also ordered that Isaac’s name, who was found guility of defiling the child on March 10, 2022 after the prosecution established its case beyond reasonable doubt be registered in the Sexual Offenders Register maintained by Lagos State.
The statement added that the judge held that the prosecution had proved the offence beyond reasonable doubt, establishing that the survivor was a child and that Isaac had sexual intercourse with her, and found the testimony of the survivor, who was nine years old when she testified, credible and consistent.
Penpushing further reports thatthe statement explained that the survivor identified Isaac in court and gave a clear account of how he, whom she knew as ‘Master Isaac’, took her into the school toilet and sexually assaulted her, adding that medical evidence from the Mirabel Centre corroborated the evidence of penetration.
The court rejected Isaac’s denial that he went beyond the school gate on the day of the incident, noting that his own evidence placed him at the school at the material time, however, the cout rejected his defence of alibi, as well as suggestions that the survivor could have been sexually abused by her stepsister or that the school toilet was too small for the offence to have occurred.
Penpushing also reports that the judge during sentencing, held that Isaac had abused the trust placed in him by the survivor and her family, pointing out that Isaac was once her teacher and was entrusted by parents in the community to transport their children.
The judge equally relied on evidence from the survivor’s mother, who noticed blood on her daughter’s underwear and vagina shortly after she returned home from school and directed the prosecution to take immediate steps under the Victim Assistance and Witness Protection Law, 2022, to secure whatever protection and support the survivor and her family require.
Penpushing reports that Isaac was prosecuted under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, which prescribes life imprisonment for anyone who has unlawful sexual intercourse with a child, however, the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) on Friday in a statement explained that, the order was made in line with Sections 33 and 38 of the law
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