The Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in the Ikeja area of Lagos State has sentenced a 25-year-old teacher, Chukwunonso Okafor, to life imprisonment for defiling a 3-year-old girl in the state.
The presiding judge, Justice Abiola Soladoye, convicted and sentenced Okafor to life imprisonment on Wednesday, May 28, 2025.
The judge held that the prosecution proved the three-count charge of sexual assault by penetration, defilement, and indecent treatment of a child against the teacher.
Justice Soladoye held that the survivor testified before the court and identified the teacher as the man who sucked her breast and penetrated her vagina.
She said the testimony of the 3-year-old girl was corroborated as she gave compelling evidence of how the teacher sexually assaulted her.
Justice Soladoye said: “You descended so low by having oral sex with a three year old baby.
“You are everything a teacher should not be and you are barbaric.
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“Upon all the evidence adduced before this court, I hereby convict you on all the three-count charges.
“You are hereby sentenced to life imprisonment on count one, life imprisonment on count two, and seven years jail term on count three.”
The judge added that the sentencing would run concurrently and that the convict be named as a sex offender.
The Lagos State counsel, Ibukun Ibikunle disclosed that the teacher committed the offences in the Ikotun area of Lagos in December 2022.
Ibikunle told the court that the convict sexually assaulted the minor by putting his penis into the girl’s mouth and caused her to perform an oral sex on him.
The prosecutor also told the court that Okafor flogged the 3-year-old girl and sucked her breasts.
She added that the offences violated Sections 135, 137 and 261 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
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