{"id":66970,"date":"2025-05-30T14:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66970"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:38:20","slug":"teacher-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-for-abusing-three-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/30\/teacher-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-for-abusing-three-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Abusing Three-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chukwunonso Okafor, a 25-year-old teacher, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for the sexual abuse of a three-year-old child at his workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Abiola Soladoye convicted Okafor on three counts, affirming that the prosecution had successfully established its case beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n<p>For the first count of sexual assault-specifically for inserting his penis into the victim\u2019s vagina-Okafor received a life sentence, in violation of Section 261 of the Criminal Law, Chapter 17, Volume 3, Laws of Lagos State 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The second count, defilement, also warranted a life sentence under Section 137 of the same law.<\/p>\n<p>The third count carried a seven-year imprisonment term under Section 135; however, all sentences will run concurrently.<\/p>\n<p>In her ruling, Justice Soladoye stated, &#8220;You descended so low by having oral sex with your victim. Your actions are barbaric.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The judge declared, &#8220;The defendant is hereby found guilty of the three counts of sexual assault against a child and is sentenced to life imprisonment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The offences occurred between July and December 2022 in Abaranje, Ikotun, Lagos State, where Okafor was employed as a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>The victim testified that Okafor had engaged in acts of sexual abuse, including inappropriate touching and penetration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Chukwunonso Okafor, a 25-year-old teacher, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for the sexual abuse of a three-year-old child at his workplace. Justice Abiola Soladoye convicted Okafor on three counts, affirming that the prosecution had successfully established its case beyond a reasonable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66972,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66970\/revisions\/66972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}