Supervisor of Chrisland School, Adegboyega Adenekan has been sentenced by the court for up to 60 years’ imprisonment for defiling a toddler. Justice S
Supervisor of Chrisland School, Adegboyega Adenekan has been sentenced by the court for up to 60 years’ imprisonment for defiling a toddler. Justice Sybil Nwaka of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Thursday described Adegboyega Adenekan, as an animal after he was found guilty of defiling a toddler. The judge who sentenced the 47 year old Adenekan also said that he was wicked.
Adenekan was arraigned on Jan. 29, 2018, on a count charge of defiling a two-year and 11-month pupil of Chrisland School, Victoria Garden City (VGC), Lagos State. In a two-hour and 15-minute judgment, Nwaka said that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. She urged that schools should ensure due diligence while hiring teachers. The judge held that Adenekan abused the trust of children in his care as well as the trust of their parents.
“Schools should not only be interested in economic gain but also the welfare of pupils. Schools should not cover up teachers who sexually abuse children. Parents should not be carried away by the aesthetics of schools. This case may just be the tip of the iceberg as a lot of our children are suffering in silence,” she said.
The judge advised parents to be bold enough to confront teachers and school management when necessary.
“A lot of our children are suffering in silence. I advise or recommend that education and social welfare ministries should visit schools randomly to give them a check. This defendant is conscienceless, wicked, an animal and not fit to walk on the streets. I hereby sentence Adegboyega Adenekan to 60 years’ imprisonment; this is the sentence of the court.”
Before convicting Adenekan, Nwaka said that the pupil had high intelligence quotient and could give a vivid and consistent narration of how she was defiled by Adenekan while she was wearing her school uniform. The judge noted that the child testified that she was defiled twice by Adenekan – once in his office and the second time in a hall. Nwaka said that the essential ingredients to prove a charge of defilement was that the defendant had sexual intercourse with a child under 11 years and that there was penetration into the vagina.
She noted that the evidence of defilement is the same as that of rape but said that, in defilement, it is immaterial if it was with or without the consent of the child. She said: “Sexual intercourse can be by hand, penis, cucumber or any blunt object. Sexual intercourse is essentially the insertion of the penis into the vagina for pleasure, reproduction or both.
“There are other types of sexual intercourse; oral sex, anal sex or fingering. In our present case, the victim said Adenekan put his finger in her ‘wee-wee’ (vagina), put his ‘wee-wee’ ( penis) in her ‘wee-wee’, and his mouth in her ‘wee-wee’. In our present case, there is a certainty of penetration. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient; it is not necessary if an injury is caused or the hymen ruptured. Penetration was corroborated by Exhibits E1 to E3; the evidence of the victim was not unshaken as to who put his ‘wee-wee’ in her ‘wee-wee’.”
