Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has convicted and sentenced a 35-year-old music teacher and counsellor of Lachez O International School, Anthony Okeh, to life imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old pupil.

His name will be registered in the Sexual Offenders Register as maintained by Lagos State.

The judge in her judgment held that the prosecution was able to discharge the burden of proof of the charge of defilement against Okeh.

Justice Soladoye 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.

The IPO said that the mother of the survivor reported the case to the police.

The court thereafter convicted Okeh of the one-count charge of defilement and consequently sentenced him to life imprisonment.

The judge also advised school owners to recruit teachers with high moral standards to teach in their schools to avoid a dent in their institutions.

During the trial, the State Counsel, Miss Abimbola Abolade, presented two witnesses; the survivor and an Investigative Police Officer while the defence called four witnesses.

Abolade told the court that the convict committed the offence on September 6, 2022, at the Lachez O International School, Agege in Lagos.

The prosecution submitted that the convict had unlawful sexual intercourse with the minor by penetrating her vagina with his penis.

Okeh was therefore sentenced to life imprisonment as the offence of defilement contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

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