2 female teachers remanded for defiling 11-year-old pupil

Two female teachers have been remanded by the court over alleged defilement of an 11-year-old pupil in Zaria, Kaduna State.

The two teachers of Zaria Children School were on Thursday arraigned before a Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Tudun-Wada Zaria over alleged defilement of the pupil.

Zaria Children School is one of the famous and oldest schools in Zaria, which was built by the colonial masters.

The prosecutor, ASC Mustapha Abdulkadir, said the two teachers and three other teachers (now at large) were standing trial on charge hinged on an unnatural offence (lesbianism).

Abdulkadir said the alleged offence is contrary to section 259 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law 2017.

The prosecutor told the court that on September 11, one Yahaya Aliyu of Tudun Jukun area, Zaria, came to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Zaria Area Command and reported against the defendants.

Abdulkadir said the defendants are Atoyebi-Eunice Temitope (female), Adeyemo Damilola (female), and three others now at large.

The prosecutor stated that on September 18, when the nominal complainant’s wife was bathing the victim, an 11-year-old girl and a Junior Secondary School (JSS-1) student at the school, she observed that the victim was molested.

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Upon interrogation at home, the victim mentioned the names of the defendants and alleged that it started in 2023, when the victim was in primary three.

Abdulkadir said: “The victim also alleged that the first defendant, Temitope (known to the victim as Mrs Okasha) took the victim to a toilet near class 4A during long break lesson period and put an object into her private part.

“She alleged that the incident happened over three different times and further alleged that Mrs Okasha threatened to inform kidnappers to abduct her if she disclose the affair to anybody.”

The prosecutor also told the court that on September 16, when the school resumed, the second defendant, Damilola, called the girl to upstairs (the secondary school section) and entered female toilet with her.

He added that while in the female toilet, the teacher inserted something into her private part using an object that looks like a syringe.

The prosecutor told the court that the alleged actions of the teachers violate section 259 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law 2017 as amended.

The presiding judge, Senior Magistrate Rabi Hashim adjourned the matter till October 22, 2025, for further mention, pending legal advice from the Kaduna State Ministry of Justice.

She also ordered that the defendants be remanded at Zaria Correctional Centre.

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