Trending Story: Ikorodu teacher to be sentenced to life imprisonment over accusations of stripping a 3-year-old kid, caressing her chest and defiling her with biro after police had discarded original statement.

Trending Story: Ikorodu teacher to be sentenced to life imprisonment over accusations of stripping a 3-year-old kid, caressing her chest and defiling her with biro after police had discarded original statement.

A parent claimed her 3-year-old came home and refused her from washing her private. When they checked, she said a classmate (Toluwani) inserted a pencil in her. The mother reported to the teacher and the headmaster.

The teacher, Mrs. Rukayat who is a mother of 1 and 3-months pregnant at the time, explained it wasn’t possible in the classroom. Because female and male students were far separated, and even if she missed it, her assistant or nanny wouldn’t. And there was no male teacher in the school.

The 3-year-old is Aduke. The next day her father took her to Ikorodu General Hospital where they confirmed there was a small hole in her 'vahgina'. That day, the father tried to arrest the Toluwani, but according to police, he was a much younger frail kid. So they told the father that Toluwani wasn’t capable of such with Aduke who’s older and bigger than him..

Instead, they arrested the headmaster and teacher, forced them to write a statement admitting they participated in the crime. They refused, until the owner of the school secured their bail.

Later, the class teacher, headmaster were charged for negligence of duty. The teacher, Ms. Rukayat had a miscarriage in detention after torture and starvation according to the reports.

After the police investigated and confirmed what the teachers said, seeing they couldn’t arrest Toluwani, the father insisted the case went to court.

Then he changed Aduke’s testimony and said, Aduke has now said, it wasn’t Toluwani, but the owner of the school that stripped and defiled her. The owner of the school had no office there neither is he ever there. After police confirmed these facts, they released him. 

Then the father said again that Aduke said it’s no longer the owner, but the school bus driver that stripped and defiled her in the bus when she was the last person there. Police investigated and confirmed, there was never a time Aduke was alone in the bus with the driver or the last to be dropped.

As the matter finally got to magistrate court Ikeja, the court asked the father to provide Aduke’s torn uniform and stained pant which he claims they saw, he couldn’t. So he stopped appearing in court.

All of these was from October 20th 2021 to early 2022. Then suddenly, an NGO did a “forensic interview” and GBV reported that, Aduke has finally recalled what happened, that it was her 3-month pregnant teacher that stripped her, carresed her chest and repeatedly penetrated her with a biro. Then they immediately discharged everyone else and put the whole case on Mrs. Rukayat. 

Declaring her guilty to face penalty of life imprisonment or at least 20 years jail, without evidence or investigation.

Rukayat was pregnant again, but was on the verge of losing it, so her doctor advised her to stay away from court's appearance temporarily.

The case went cold until March 2025, when she was abducted by the police, over claims that her lawyer told them that she ran away from the court case. They kept her and her 9months old baby in Kirikiri for 4 days, before she was bailed.

Since then, she has been shuttling courts. Toluwani, the school owner, the headmaster, the school bus driver, the assistant teacher, all discharged. While Mrs. Rukayat, is going away for life over a ₦20k salary job.

Rukayat says the only thing that can save her is another forensic GBV report. But she will still do at least 5-10 years jail term. The next hearing is March 12. She is calling on the Lagos State Government to intervene.

Happened at Imota, Ikorodu.

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