The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, has sentenced a teacher, Nwatu Isaac, to life imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old pupil of El-Bossaa Nursery and Primary School, Epe.
Justice Rahman Oshodi, in a judgment delivered on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, also ordered that Isaac’s name be entered in the Lagos State Sexual Offenders Register.
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency disclosed this in a statement on Friday, saying the orders were made under Sections 33 and 38 of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency Law, 2021.
The court found Isaac guilty of the offence committed on March 10, 2022, after the prosecution established its case beyond reasonable doubt.
According to the agency, the survivor, who was nine when she testified, gave a credible and consistent account of how Isaac, whom she knew as “Master Isaac”, took her into a school toilet and sexually assaulted her.
The court also relied on evidence from the girl’s mother, who noticed blood on her daughter’s underwear and vagina after she returned from school.
Medical evidence from the Mirabel Centre was also said to have 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 testimony placed him at the school at the relevant time.
Justice Oshodi also dismissed his alibi and suggestions that the child could have been sexually abused by her stepsister or that the school toilet was too small for the offence to have occurred.
In sentencing Isaac, the judge said he had abused the trust placed in him by the child and her family.
The court noted that Isaac “was once her teacher” and had also been entrusted by parents in the community to transport their children.
Justice Oshodi directed the prosecution to take “immediate steps” under the Victim Assistance and Witness Protection Law, 2022, to provide the survivor and her family with the protection and support they require.
Isaac was prosecuted under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, which provides for life imprisonment for unlawful sexual intercourse with a child.
Discussion0