This incident happened at a private school on Olateju Ilesanmi Street, Baruwa, Ipaja area of Lagos where a 10-year-old primary four pupil told the police how her teacher, Adeniran Adebayo, allegedly took advantage of her and defiled her inside the school toilet.
The victim said her health teacher threatened to flog her if she made a noise while he had sex with her in the toilet.
She said one of the female teachers in the school, however, heard her cry and barged into the toilet, forcing Adebayo, a father of two, to stop and hurriedly dress up.
Narrating the incident to a Lagos State Chief Magistrate’s Court at Ebute Meta on Wednesday, the Investigating Police Officer from the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, said the victim repeated the account three different times.
The defendant wass granted bail in the sum of N300,000 with two sureties in like sum. The sureties should also deposit the sum of N50,000 into the account of the Chief Registrar.
Meanwhile, the defendant is ordered to be remanded in prison, pending the perfection of his bail terms.
The matter was adjourned till October 15, 2014.