Teacher jailed 12 years for raping 11-year-old boy in Anambra

A court docket in Awka, Anambra Speak, on Wednesday sentenced a 34-year-inclined trainer, Pascal Ofomata, to 12 years in penitentiary for raping an 11-year-inclined JSS 1 student.

Ofomata, who taught at St Christopher’s Junior Seminary 3-3 Onitsha, confronted three charges: rape; inflicting physical hurt; and sexual abuse below sections 3(1) and 4(1) of the Violence towards Persons Prohibition Regulation and the offence of Sexual Abuse punishable below part 35(2) of the Child’s Staunch Regulation of Anambra Speak.

He denied the charges, announcing he did not penetrate the victim’s anus.

Nonetheless Ofomata admitted in his utter to the police that he sucked the victim’s penis and informed the victim to kiss him.

The court docket came upon the defendant responsible after an intensive trial that included assessments of the victim’s physician and the investigating police officer, and it upheld the prosecutor’s case.

Justice Peace Otti convicted Ofomata and sentenced him to 12 years in detention heart.

The court docket additionally banned him from working in colleges or in any establishment with persons below 18 similar to predominant, secondary, and even tertiary institutions.

The court docket, to boot, barred him from being employed in any establishment with persons below 18 similar to predominant, secondary, and even tertiary institutions.