A 31-year-old teacher working with a private school
in Ibadan, Oyo State, Adebola Adetola, has been
arrested by the Oyo State Police Command after the
family of a Primary Three pupil (names withheld)
reported to the police and accused him of having
sex with their daughter.
The pupil, whose parents said will clock 10 in July
this year, was said to have opened up to the parents
on Thursday, June 4, on what had been going on
between her and her teacher, leading to his arrest on
Friday, June 5.
The teacher, who attends a popular Pentecostal
church in Ibadan, is due for wedding with his fiancée
in August.
But the suspect told Crime Reports that he did not
commit the crime he was being accused of, though
he admitted that the girl used to play in his room
and would sleep on his rug after school hours.
Speaking with Crime Reports, the girl, who said the
suspect was a teacher in her school as well as her
after-school lesson teacher, stated:
“I used to help Mr Adetola to carry his things
to his house. He used to teach me and four
others lesson after school hours.
“One day, when others had left, he asked me
to sleep on the bed and remove my pants. He
removed his boxers and raped me from the
back. He shook and a whitish thing came out
of him. He wiped it with toilet roll. Since then,
he had been doing the same thing to me. It
had been on for some time before my mother
discovered on Thursday.
“He used to give me N5 and would also buy
biscuit for me. I was using the money to buy
sweets (candies) from my mother’s shop.”
The girl said she did not tell her mother of her
experience because the teacher warned her against
it, threatening that he would beat her seriously if she
did.
Explaining his side of the story, Adetola said the girl
was his student, adding that he was also very close
to her parents.
“She used to come to my room and would
sleep on my rug. Her parents are well aware of
her closeness to me. I have never slept with
her, not to talk of cleaning her up as she
claimed.
“It is true I used to buy things for her and
give her money, but I had no ulterior motive
for doing this other than the fact that I was
close to her family. I w
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