“My teacher Malama falmata kept me inside her hijab after school on that day and asked me to suck her breasts while sitting on her laps. While I sucked her breasts she used her fingers to penetrate my private part”
Borno state Police Command, has arrested a female school teacher simply identified as Fatmata Zarah for allegedly sexually assaulting a five-year-old female pupil in Maiduguri, DAILY POST has reported.
According to security sources, the suspect who is a divorcee in her mid thirties and a teacher in a primary school close to the Government House in Maiduguri, is accused of inserting her fingers in the victim’s sex organ on November 11, 2022.
Hassan Baba, the victim’s father said he had observed his daughter’s urine had become reddish, which prompted him to rush her to the Umaru Shehu Hospital rape section for check up.
“On reaching the hospital, it was discovered that she had been penetrated. And on inquiries, she opened up that it was her class teacher that curdled her inside the dark of her hijabs to commit the havoc,” the source told DAILY POST.
“My teacher Malama falmata kept me inside her hijab after school on that day and asked me to suck her breasts while sitting on her laps.
“While I sucked her breasts she used her fingers to penetrate my private part,” she was quoted to have told her father, who narrated the incident to human rights activists and security agents.
On discovery that his daughter was obviously violated, Hassan quickly reported the matter to the Police Division at GRA, near the Government House, where the matter was taken up for prosecution under the new rape law.
The state head of the National Human Rights commission (NHRC), Barrister Jumai Meshelia in a chat Friday evening, said they were aware of the matter and would surely do the needful to ensure that the suspect is prosecuted according to the violence against persons prosecution VAPP law.
She said that a minor of just five years of age should never be allowed to go through such kinds of physical or psychological injuries.
The Police spokesperson of the command, Sani Shatambaya could not be reached as at the time of writing this report as he was said to be out of town.
By DAILY POST
