The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Tuesday, sentenced a school teacher, Nwatu Isaac, to life imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old pupil in a toilet in El-Bossaa Nursery and Primary School, Epe.
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, in a statement on Friday, said Justice Rahman Oshodi convicted the defendant in line with Section 137 of the state’s criminal law 2015, which prescribes life jail term for anyone found guilty of unlawfully having sexual intercourse with a child.
The agency said, “Hon. Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, sitting in Ikeja, convicted and sentenced a school teacher, Nwatu Isaac, to life imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old pupil of El-Bossaa Nursery and Primary School, Epe.
“The judge delivered the judgment on Tuesday, 29th September 2026, after finding Isaac guilty of defiling the child on 10th March 2022. In his judgment, Justice Oshodi held that the prosecution had proved the offence beyond reasonable doubt, establishing that the survivor was a child and that Isaac had sexual intercourse with her.
“The court found the testimony of the survivor, who was nine years old when she testified, credible and consistent. She identified Isaac in court and gave a clear account of how he, whom she knew as ‘Master Isaac’, took her into the school toilet and sexually assaulted her.”
The judge also relied on the evidence of the survivor’s mother, who noticed blood on her daughter’s underwear and vagina shortly after she returned home from school, as well as medical evidence from the Mirabel Centre which corroborated the evidence of penetration.
“The court rejected Isaac’s denial that he went beyond the school gate on the day of the incident, noting that his own evidence placed him at the school at the material time, while the survivor identified him as the person who took her into the toilet.
“The court also rejected his defence of alibi, as well as suggestions that the survivor could have been sexually abused by her stepsister or that the school toilet was too small for the offence to have occurred.
“During sentencing, the judge held that Isaac had abused the trust placed in him by the survivor and her family, noting that he was once her teacher and was also entrusted by parents in the community to transport their children,” said the statement.
According to the statement, the convict’s name will be registered in the Sexual Offenders Register, in line with sections 33 and 38 of the state’s Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency Law, 2021.
The judge also directed the prosecution to take immediate steps under the Victim Assistance and Witness Protection Law, 2022 to secure whatever protection and support the survivor and her family require.