Enugu State Police Command arrested the head teacher of a primary school in the Enugu-Ezike area of the state, Mr Nathaniel Idoko, for defiling four female pupils between the ages of five and six. Idoko blamed his crime on ‘Satan’.

From 2013 to date, there have been at least 19 reported cases of teachers sexually assaulting their pupils. A total of 39 pupils; 35 girls and five boys, across eight states were raped, ‘fingered’ or sodomised. One of the predators had defiled as many as seven girls. News reports claimed that one of the victims was even infected with a sexually transmitted disease.

The children, aged between two and 14 years at the time, were pupils of private schools, except one public school in Epe, Lagos State. Most of the incidents took place in the schools’ premises, save for two occuring in either the victim’s residence or that of the accused.