A lecturer of the University of Lagos has been sentenced to 21 years in jail for raping his friend's
daughter.
Dr Afeez Baruwa, a part-time lecturer at the University of Lagos,Akoka been sentenced to 21-year imprisonment for raping an 17-year-old admission seeker.
Justice Oyefeso of an lkeja High Court, while sentencing him on Thursday said: "the prosecution has proven his case beyond a reasonable doubt. I found him guilty of the charge.
I cannot begin to imagine the emotional traurma of the girl. The convict offended his family, the victim, the society and God. Baruwa, I hereby sentence you to 21 years imprisonment Maximum, this is my judgment"
The convict was as a community leader at Abesan and a project supervisor at the Distant Leaming Institution (DLI) of the university since 2010.
He had said that the father of the complainant had approached him to aid his daughter to gain admission into the institution.
The lecturer raped the teenager at 9.25a.m. on July 23, 2015, in Room 8, at the Faculty of Business Administration Annex building of the University of Lagos when she was there to make arrangements for her admission. .
However while defending himself, he said the sex was consensual. He revealed that he was asleep but was woken up by the complainant who, he claimed, was fondling him.
"Her hands were all over me and I woke up and I looked at her. By then, she had already removed the buttons of her blouse and I did suck her breasts. She moved her hands toward my penis. I told her to be conscious of the students
that were outside.
She threatened to shout and create a scene if l refuse to have sex with her. My lord, I was scared because I noticed the desperation in her. I left her in the office and went downstairs to look for a condom.....When I returned, she had already removed her jean trousers; that was how we
had sex. About 10 to 15 minutes later she told me that she was okay.I teased her that she was self-centred because I was yet to release."
This was the ordeal that transpired between the Culprit and the Complainant before Justice finally took its course
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