For abusing and sexually assaulting eight students, one Adam Farouk, a clergyman, was sentenced to eight times life in prison.
The clergyman was found guilty and given a sentence on Tuesday for defiling the students in his class, who ranged in age from six to eleven, by an Ikeja Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence Court.
According to NAN, Justice Abiola Soladoye ruled that the prosecution had established the elements of the eight-count sexual assault by penetration allegation against the cleric beyond a reasonable doubt.
The priest, according to Soladoye, is morally lacking and a disgrace to the Islamic faith, and the court did not fall for his lies.
She claimed that the students' testimony was verified since they admitted that the cleric was their teacher and that he had poked their vaginas with his index finger.
The 10th prosecution witness, Mrs. Oluchi Nwoke-Okoi, a midwife with the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), testified, according to Soladoye, that the students had vaginal injuries.
The judgment further ruled that while defiling each student individually, the defendant instructed the students to turn around.
"The defendant's demeanor is nothing to write home about," she remarked. He is incredibly cruel and harsh, fingering his students with his index finger, and his stony countenance gives off the appearance of being naughty.
What an Islamic teacher who abused the purity and decency of his underprivileged pupils by taking advantage of them!
He was supposed to teach his students principles, morals, and discipline, but sadly the opposite happened.
"Our students' safety and dignity must be respected. His kind of filthy Islamic lecturers must be imprisoned and made to pay for their filthy sexual transgressions.
The sentences will run concurrently, but the defendant is found guilty on all counts and given a life term on each of the eight offenses.
The convict's name was also ordered to be entered into Lagos State's Sexual Offenders Register by the judge.
