A security guard in a public school, Adeniyi Primary School,
Itire, Lagos State has been arrested by police or allegedly raping an
eight-year-old pupil. The 40-year-old suspect, Friday Oshoba, called, Mopol, committed the alleged crime
while the primary 2 pupil, was waiting for her sister to pick her up after the
school closed around 2pm.
Oshoba was said to have persuaded her to follow him to a
deserted spot within the school and removed her underwear. He reportedly raped
her afterwards.
It was gathered that a class five pupil, identified only as
Bukola, who was sent on an errand by a schoolteacher, caught the guard in the
act and reported to the teacher.
On getting home, the victim recounted the incident to her
parents. An uncle of the girl followed her to the school the following day and
reported the matter to the head teacher. The head teacher was said to have
invited policemen from the Itire division, leading to Oshoba’s arrest.
In her statement to police, the victim said, “I was in the
school on May 11 at about 2pm when Mopol
called me to a place on the school premises. He removed my underwear and
put his thing (manhood) inside my bum-bum. Bukola, who is in
primary five, saw us and reported to her teacher. I also told my daddy when I
got home.”
The suspect, an indigene of Ekpoma, Edo State, denied raping
the girl, saying he did not know her name. Oshoba was, however, silent in his
statement on whether he took the girl to any spot as alleged.
He said, “The girl is one of our pupils in Adeniyi Primary
School. I did not know her name, but I know she is in Primary two. I did not do
anything with her. I was married, but my wife left me and I don’t have any
child.”
However, a social worker at the Mirabel Centre, Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital, where medical examinations were carried out on
the victim, said the victim had bruises in her private parts.
Oshoba was subsequently brought before an Apapa
Magistrate’s Court by a police prosecutor, Francisca Job, on one count of rape.
The charge read, “That you, Friday Oshoba, on May 11, 2016,
at about 2pm, at Adeniyi Primary School, Itire, Lagos State, in the Apapa
Magisterial District, did defile an eight-year-old girl… thereby committing an
offence punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.”
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge. The
presiding magistrate, Mrs. A.O. Adegbite, admitted him to bail in the sum of
N200,000 with two sureties in like sum.
The case was adjourned till July 27, 2016.
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