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55-year-old head teacher, Akpolagha Agbugiye at Akaba, near Yenagoa,
Bayelsa State, has been arraigned by the police for allegedly inserting
his fingers in the private part of an eightyear- old pupil.
The prosecuting officer, Inspector Roselyn Doctor, told Magistrates’
Court 1 sitting in Yenagoa, presided over by Patricia Edouyemiekumo that
the accused had, on May 3, summoned his victim to the back of the
school building and ordered her to ‘pick a pin’ which is a form of
punishment used in some schools in the state.
She said: “The accused asked the classmate of the victim to call her
for him. When the two girls met him at the back of the school building,
he asked the other girl to leave.
“The headmaster then asked the pupil to pick pin which the girl
obeyed. At this point he pulled the girl’s pant and inserted his fingers
into her private part.”
Doctor said the victim limped home and reported the incident to her mother.
According to her, the pupil was later taken for medical examination at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Yenagoa.
The prosecutor said the doctor who conducted the examination
confirmed that the girl had been defiled, prompting the arrest of the
accused.
She told the court that Agbugiye’s action was a criminal offence,
which was an unlawful and indecent assault punishable under Section
146(2) of the Criminal Code Law of Bayelsa State, 2006.
Agbugiye pleaded not guilty to the charge and was granted bail with
the sum of N100,000 and two sureties residing in the state capital.
The matter was adjourned till June 13 for further hearing.
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