An Ikeja High Court has sentenced a former part-time lecturer at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) to 21 years imprisonment for raping an 18-year-old admission seeker.
Afeez Baruwa was convicted of one count charge of rape.
Justice Josephine Oyefeso said on Thursday that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
“I cannot begin to imagine the emotional trauma of the girl. The convict offended his family, the victim, the society and God,” the judge said.
The prosecution said Baruwa, a married father of two and former part-time lecturer in the Department of Accounting at the university, raped the girl on July 23, 2015, in Room 8 at the Faculty of Business Administration, Annex building, UNILAG.
Baruwa, who was a friend of the victim’s father, was requested to help secure admission for her into the institution.
