Teacher Gets Life Sentence For Raping Pupil

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October 17, 2014 10:45 AM

For defiling an 11-year-old minor, a 35-year-old school teacher, Bright Asiruwa, is to spend the rest of his life in prison.

For not being able to control his sexual libido, a 35-year-old primary school teacher in Benin, Edo State, Bright Asiruwa, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a high court sitting in the state capital. Bright's offence was raping an 11-year-old pupil entrusted to his care by her parents.

According to the Punch Newspaper reports, Asiruwa committed the offense in 2007 and has been standing trial since then before the life sentence was pronounced on him by the trial judge.

The prosecution Counsel, Nelson Okojie, told the court that Asiruwa defiled the pupil at Osazuwa Primary School, Ehor, in the Uhunmwode Local Government Area of the state, when he lured the victim into the school's toilet and raped her severally, before nemesis finally caught up with him.

The presiding judge, Justice G. O. Imadegbelo, subsequently sentenced the 35-year-old teacher to life imprisonment, having found him guilty of the offence.

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