A 52-year-old school teacher, Isaac Ikiabeke, has been arrested for allegedly raping a 5-year-old pupil in Ikorodu.
Ikiabeke, who is the proprietor of the school, Brighter Glory School, allegedly raped his victim after school hours.
The victim, five-year-old Pat*, said Ikiabeke raped her 10 times, “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 alleged sexual assault by some of Pat’s classmates.
He expressed his shock and disappointment in Ikiabeke, whom he regarded as a respectable man saying, “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 stomach ache. 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.
He said a three-year-old pupil, who was equally raped by the suspect, was in a critical condition in a hospital, “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.
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