Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a 35-year-old music teacher and counsellor of Lachez O International School, Anthony Okeh, to life imprisonment for defiling a 9-year-old JSS 1 student (name withheld).
The judge in her judgment held that the prosecution was able to discharge the burden of proof of the charge of defilement against Okeh.
She said that Okeh was a “pathological liar”, “everything a teacher should not be” by having unlawful sexual intercourse with his pupil and “a soulless man without any iota of shame.”
Justice Soladoye said the case was direct evidence as the survivor was in court to narrate her sexual ordeals in the hands of her music teacher, a sexual predator. (Punch)