The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a schoolteacher, Nwatu Isaac, to life imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old pupil of El-Bossaa Nursery and Primary School, Epe.
Justice Rahman Oshodi delivered the judgement on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, after finding Isaac guilty of sexually assaulting the pupil on March 10, 2022.
The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency disclosed this in a statement posted on its official X handle on Friday, October 2.
“Hon. Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, sitting in Ikeja, convicted and sentenced a schoolteacher, Nwatu Isaac, to life imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old pupil of El-Bossaa Nursery and Primary School, Epe.
“His name will be registered in the Sexual Offenders Register maintained by Lagos State, in line with Sections 33 and 38 of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency Law, 2021,” the statement reads.
According to the agency, Justice Oshodi held that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and established that the survivor was a child and that Isaac had sexual intercourse with her.
The court found the survivor’s testimony credible and consistent, noting that she was nine years old when she testified and identified Isaac in court.
She told the court that Isaac, whom she knew as “Master Isaac,” took her into the school toilet and sexually assaulted her.
The judge also relied on evidence from the survivor’s mother, who noticed blood on her daughter’s underwear and vagina shortly after she returned from school.
The agency said medical evidence from the Mirabel Centre further corroborated the survivor’s account and established penetration.
The court rejected Isaac’s denial that he went beyond the school gate on the day of the incident, noting that his own testimony placed him at the school at the material time, while the survivor identified him as the person who took her into the toilet.
Justice Oshodi also rejected the teacher’s defence of alibi and suggestions that the survivor could have been sexually abused by her stepsister or that the school toilet was too small for the offence to have occurred.
In sentencing Isaac, the judge said he had abused the trust placed in him by the survivor and her family.
The court noted that Isaac was the girl’s teacher and had also been entrusted by parents in the community to transport their children.
Justice Oshodi further directed the prosecution to take immediate steps under the Victim Assistance and Witness Protection Law, 2022, to provide the survivor and her family with whatever protection and support they require.
Isaac was prosecuted under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, which prescribes life imprisonment for anyone who has unlawful sexual intercourse with a child.
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