The police in Lagos State have arrested a part-time lecturer in UNILAG, Afeez Baruwa, for allegedly r*ping an 18-year-old girl, identified simply as Caroline (real names withheld) in the Yaba area.
The young girl, who is just 18-year-old, was reportedly r*ped inside one of the study rooms in the institution, while she was seeking admission into the University of Lagos, Akoka.
But the story is not very straight. Looks like the girl agreed. The lecturer told the police in his statement that the s*xual act was by mutual consent, insisting that he did not r*pe her...
According to Punch, Baruwa was arrested by the Surulere Police Division on Monday, August 3.
It was learnt that the lecturer and Caroline’s father belonged to the
same landlords’ association in the Abesan, Ipaja area. The girl's father
had allowed her daughter to follow the lecturer on July 23, to UNILAG
for an admission process.
It was learnt that after the incident, Caroline, who told her parents about the incident, was taken to an NGO, Mirabel Centre, where she was tested.
The medical result reportedly confirmed that the teenager was violated.
Caroline was thereafter taken to the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender, and the matter was reported at the police station. Baruwa was subsequently arrested.
The Director of the Office of the Public Defender, Mrs. Omotola Rotimi, said the OPD would write a letter to the UNILAG Vice-Chancellor on the incident, so as to ensure that such did not reoccur.
She said, “We are going to defend the girl. The suspect is said to be in the Department of Accounting. He claimed the s*x was consensual, but that is not a defence.”
Baruwa, who was in custody, would be charged to court on Thursday. He maintains the act is consensual.
But Lagos State Police PRO, DSP Patricia Amadin, said “the suspect claims to be a part-time lecturer, but not an employee of the University of Lagos. He has confessed to the crime and the medical result proved same.”
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