52-year-old teacher in Lagos rapes 5 year old pupil in classroom

The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a
52-year-old school teacher, Isaac Ikiabeke, for
allegedly raping a 5-year-old pupil in the Ikorodu
area.
Ikiabeke, who is the proprietor of the school,
Brighter Glory School, located on Etunrere Street,
raped his victim after school hours.
The victim, five-year-old Pat (not her real
name), said Ikiabeke had allegedly raped her 10
times.
She said,
“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 sexual assault by some of Pat’s
classmates.
He said he was shocked, as well as disappointed in
Ikiabeke, whom he regarded as a respectable man.
He said,
“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 stomachache.
“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.
A police source said that they got complaints from
two victims.
He said a three-year-old pupil, who was equally
raped by the suspect, was in a critical condition in
a hospital.
He said,
“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.
The police on Monday arraigned Ikiabeke before a
Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court on one count of
unlawful sexual intercourse.
The charge read,
“That you, Isaac Ikiabeke, on June 9, 2015, at
about 3pm, at Brighter Glory School, Etunrere
Street, Ikorodu, Lagos, in the Lagos
Magisterial District, did have unlawful sexual
intercourse with a minor, (name withheld)
aged five years and thereby committed an
offence punishable under Section 258 (1) of
the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria,
2011.”
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge
and elected summary trial.
The case was adjourned till August 10, 2015