A High
Court in Ado Ekiti has sentenced to life imprisonment a former Vice Principal
of St. Mary’s Girls Grammar School, Ikole-Ekiti, Taiwo Ajayi, after finding him
guilty of raping a 12-year-old in 2014.
The court said Mr. Ajayi committed the offence
against Section 31(2) of the Child Rights Law of Ekiti State 2012.
The convict was the Vice Principal (Academics)
at the time he committed the offence on March 18, 2014.
Mr. Ajayi reportedly lured the girl into his
office, locked the door from behind and raped her on the table while covering
her mouth with a piece of cloth.
A teacher had knocked on the door while Mr.
Ajayi was carrying out the act, but he refused to open the door, and warned his
victim not to tell anybody.
Two of the school teachers were, however, said
to have forced the door open after 30 minutes and caught Mr. Ajayi in the very
act.
Delivering the judgment, Justice Oluwatoyin
Abodunde held that the prosecution had proved the case beyond every reasonable
doubt on the strength of evidence placed before the court.
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