A high court sitting in Benin, the Edo State
capital, has sentenced a 35-year-old teacher, Bright Asiruwa, to life
imprisonment for defiling an 11-year-old primary school pupil.
Asiruwa, who was the victim’s teacher before the
incident, was said to have committed the act in 2007.
Although proceedings on the matter had commenced at
an Abudu High Court in 2008, the case was transferred to the Benin High Court
for further hearing.
Earlier, the prosecution Counsel, Nelson Okojie,
told the court that Asiruwa defiled the pupil at Osazuwa Primary School, Ehor,
in the Uhunmwode Local Government Area of the state.
The presiding judge, Justice G. O. Imadegbelo,
subsequently sentenced the 35-year-old teacher to life imprisonment, having
found him guilty of the offence.
Source: Punch
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