Posted by Kolade Stephen. on 19 May, 2023 under Naija News
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Police operatives at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, Lagos State, have arrested Mosediq Toheeb, a 24-year old Islamic teacher, for allegedly defiling a six-year old pupil by inserting his finger into her private part inside at a Quranic school.
We reports that the incident happened on 7th May, 2023, at the University of Lagos Central Mosque but the Islamic teacher, was on Wednesday remanded by a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court.
The court presided over by Magistrate Patrick Nwaka, remanded the defendant on two counts of sexual violation preferred against him by the State police command.
Thomas Nurudeen, the police prosecutor, told the court that the it was the second time that the teacher would defile the child.
At the court, the victim’s mother said on the day of the incident, the child returned home from school with blood stains on her clothes and when asked what happened, she told her that her class teacher took her to a separate classroom, tied her mouth and hands and defiled her with a stern warning that she should not tell anybody.
Nurudeen however stated that the offences committed are punishable under Sections 261 and 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015.
The charge read in part,
“That you, Mosediq Toheeb, on May 7, 2023, around 4pm at UNILAG Central Mosque, in the Yaba Magisterial District, did sexually assault one six-year-old female (name withheld), who lives at No. 26, Femi Adebule Street, Fola Agoro, in the Somolu area of Lagos, by inserting your finger into her vagina and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 261 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.â€
