Arabic teacher bags 21-year jail term for defiling pupil

An Arabic teacher, Oladosu Sakiru, has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for defiling a 13-year-old pupil.

Sakiru was convicted and sentenced by Justice Rahman Oshodi, of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday, January 14, 2025.

According to a statement by the Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (LDSVA), Sakiru’s name will be registered in the Sexual Offenders Register as maintained by Lagos State.

LDSVA said Oshodi sentenced Sakiru following his guilty plea to the amended two counts of attempted sexual assault by penetration and indecent treatment of a child.

Oshodi said,“As an imam and an Arabic school teacher, you occupy a position of significant trust, that trust extended not only to the 13-year-old child, the one you victimised but also to her parents and the entire community who look to you for spiritual and moral guidance.”

According to the prosecution, the offences committed violated Sections 135 and 262 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

Sakiru was therefore sentenced to 14 years imprisonment on count one and seven years imprisonment on count two and both jail terms would run consecutively.