Court Jails Lecturer 21 Years For Raping Admission Seeker
A Lagos High Court sitting in the Ikeja area has convicted and sentenced a former part-time lecturer, Afeez Baruwa, to 21 years imprisonment for raping an 18-year-old girl who was seeking admission into the university.The convict was said to have raped the victim inside a study room when she was seeking admission into the university.
The defence counsel, in his allocutus , said that rape was an offence of life imprisonment if found guilty.He also said that the convict was a first time offender, a married man with four kids and aged parents, all of whom he has to cater for. The prosecution had alleged that the former lecturer raped the teenager at 9.25am on July 23, 2015, in Room 8 at the Faculty of Business Administration Annex building of UNILAG.
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