by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 27, 2023 | sexual abuse
After a former pupil revealed the details of their years-long sexual relationship, the gym teacher was sentenced to prison. On November 8, Lydia Pinto, a 38-year-old New Jersey native and former Bridgewater-Raritan High School teacher, was charged with two counts of...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 26, 2023 | Rape
Rev. Fr. Nwaigwe Stephen, a Catholic priest, has been placed under detention by the Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Court, which is housed in the Chief Magistrate’s court in Awka, Anambra State, for allegedly raping and impregnating a teenager....
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 22, 2023 | Child Abuse
Jegede Folorunsho, 54, has been sent under remand to the Ikoyi Correctional Centre after it was alleged that he defiled an eight-year-old girl in the Lagos State neighbourhood of Mushin. On Monday, November 20, 2023, the defendant appeared in Magistrate O.M....
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 21, 2023 | Rape
Two suspected rapists who are said to have defiled two juveniles in the Isabo neighbourhood of Abeokuta and Abule-Osho in the Olambe section of the Ifo Local Government neighbourhood of the state are the target of a manhunt by the Ogun State Police Command. There have...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 20, 2023 | Child Abuse
Anthony Mgbe, 70, was remanded in prison by an Enugu State magistrate court after he killed and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl. Uchechukwu Onwuzuru, the victim—who was described as deaf and dumb—bled to death following what is believed to have been a violent...
