The police in Lagos State have arrested a part-time
lecturer, Afeez Baruwa, for allegedly raping an 18-year-
old girl, identified as Caroline (pseudonym) in the Yaba
area.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim, who was reportedly
r*ped inside a study room, was seeking admission into
the University of Lagos, Akoka.
It was gathered that Baruwa was arrested by the
Surulere Police Division on Monday, August 3. However,
he told the police in his statement that the $exual
intercourse was by mutual consent,
insisting that he did not r*pe the victim.
The lecturer and Caroline’s father belonged to the same
landlords’ a$$ociation in the Abesan, Ipaja area.
It was gathered that the victim’s father had allowed her
daughter to follow the lecturer on July 23, to UNILAG for
an admission process. Baruwa allegedly took the girl
inside one of the study halls, bolted the door, and
r*ped her.
After the incident, Caroline, who told her parents about
the r*pe, was taken to a non-governmental
organisation, Mirabel Centre, where she was tested.
The medical result reportedly confirmed that the
teenager was violated.
She was thereafter taken to the Lagos State Office of
the Public Defender, and the matter was also reported
at the police station. Baruwa was subsequently
arrested.
A police source in Surulere said,:
“The suspect is actually a friend of the father of the
girl. The girl had written the Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination, and she needed a
$$istance with the post-UTME.
“So, the father sent her to meet and discuss with the
lecturer.
But, it turned out that on July 23 when the girl visited
the suspect, he r*ped the girl in the study room. The
suspect confessed to the act, but his claim is that the
$ex was by mutual consent.”
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