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A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment, after being found guilty of rape.
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The accused, music teacher was said to have defiled one of his students, a minor.
A music teacher has bagged a life sentence, after being found guilty of rape and assault.
Daily Report Nigeria gathers that the accused, identified as Anthony Okeh, a teacher and counselor was said to have molested and defiled a 9-year-old girl in lagos state.
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The accused reportedly commited the crime against a JSS1 student on Sept. 6, 2022 at Lachez O International School, Agege, Lagos.
He was subsequently paraded and sentenced before an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Wednesday, May 21.
The State Counsel, Miss Abimbola Abolade presented two witnesses; the survivor and an investigative police officer while the defence called four witnesses.
Delivering judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Abiola Soladoye described the defendant as ‘a soulless man without any iota of shame’.
To the mind of this court, the denial of the convict is a form to distance himself from the crime.
“The convict is a pathological liar whose evidence is an after thought and I do not believe him at all.
“I do not believe the other three defence witnesses as well, because their evidences were devoid of truth and they were tainted witnesses.
“Cases are not won on the number of witnesses presented to testify before the court but on the quality of evidence adduced that are credible, convincing and compelling,” the judge said.
The survivor recognised the man in the box as her music teacher who defiled her more than two times in the music room.
“The testimony of the Investigative Police Officer (IPO) is corroborated by the testimony of the survivor when she said that the mother of the girl noticed her reluctance to go to school and she later confessed to her mother what the convict had been doing to her.
“The IPO said that the mother of the survivor (nominal complainant) reported the case to the police.
“Statement of the nominal complainant was admitted into evidence,” Soladoye added.
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