Lagos Chrisland Child R*pe: School Supervisor Bags 60 Years in Jail

An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court has sentenced a supervisor at Chrisland School, VGC, Lagos, Adegboyega Adenekan, 47, to 60 years imprisonment for child defilement.

Justice Sybil Nwaka handed down the sentence after convicting Adenekan of a lone count charge of defiling a two-year and 11-month-old pupil.

The little child had given a detailed description of how Adegboyega defiled her. The 47-year-old supervisor was arraigned before the Court in January 2018.

According to Titilayo Shitta-Bey, the state Director of Public Prosecution, the defendant committed the crime in November 2016.

The police officer told the court: “The child took us upstairs to the defendant’s office. She identified his seat out of three seats in the room and she identified the restroom in the office where the said incident happened.”

In a video clip of the interview he had with the child shown to the court, the little girl said the supervisor put his “wee wee” in her “wee wee” two times.

Delivering her judgement on Thursday, Justice Nwaka held that the prosecution proved its case against the convict beyond every reasonable doubt, adding that the evidence of the child that the convict defiled her twice was corroborated by a medical report from the Mirabel Centre, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.

She said, “The basic elements to consider in this case are that the accused had sex with the child; that there was penetration; and that the evidence of the child was corroborated.

“The victim, in her evidence before the court, said Mr Adenekan put his mouth and his hand in her wee-wee (private parts). She also said that the supervisor put his mouth in the private parts of her best friend (name withheld).

“The little girl said Adenekan covered her mouth when she attempted to shout and that he defiled her twice on the school premises, at his office and at the hallway. I have no doubt in my mind that this defendant, Adenekan, is the same person the victim said put his hand in her private parts and therefore, the defendant is convicted accordingly and sentenced to 60 years’ imprisonment.”

– IB9ja/ Punch