Man brutally beating by angry mob for trying to rape a 14 years old girl (photo)

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Residents of Ogunfunmi Street, Akobi Crescent Surulere,
Lagos on Tuesday, dragged a school teacher, Benedict
Ekpenyong, a teacher in Akintan Grammar School on
Akintan Street, Surulere, to the police station for allegedly
locking up a female pupil in his room and attempting to rape
her.

It was learnt that neighbours saw Ekpenyong take the 14-
year-old pupil, who was also a pupil of Akintan Grammar
School and only as Blessing to his apartment at about 12pm
and heard the bolt to the door lock.
Both of them were in the room for a few minutes before a
mob surrounded the house and tried to force the teacher’s
door open. Upon succefully forcing the door open, the mob
observed that Ekpenyong had allegedly tried to have sex
with the pupil, so they began to beat him.

The teacher was reportedly beaten by the mob before he
and the pupil were dragged to the Alakara Police Division
at about 1pm.

An eyewitness said that the neighbours had become angry
because Ekpenyong allegedly had a habit of bringing
schoolgirls and locking them up in his room during school
hours.

He said:
“I do not stay on Ogunfunmi Street but I knew when
the mob went to the house. For several minutes,
people gathered in front of the teacher’s room and
asked him to open the door but he refused. Then, they
forced it open.

“When they did, they found evidence that Ekpenyong
might have attempted to rape the girl as the pupil was
not the first person that would be brought to the
teacher’s room. So, they began to beat him up. It was
a major scene on the street.”

According to reports by Punch Metro, Ekpenyong was
arrested and detained by the police, while the teenager was
taken away by the Domestic and Sexual Violence
Response Team of the Lagos State Government for
medical examination and rehabilitation.

One of the social workers, identified only as Idowu, said:
“The information we have is that the suspect is
notorious in the area for bringing little girls to his
house and doing suspicious things with them. He locks
them up in his room so nobody gets to hear anything.
“On Tuesday, the neighbours were watching him and
they sent an alert to the government. By the time we
got there, he had stepped out with the girl. The people
actually beat him up and dragged both of them to the
police station. The girl has been taken and we are
making arrangements to move her from the station.”

The Coordinator, DSVRT, Lola Viviour-Adeniyi, said
the team would write to the Ministry of Education to
investigate the school as it had been reported that cases of
sexual abuses were rampant in the school.

She added:
“As we speak, the girl is under protection. We want
the police to ensure that the suspect is charged to court
as the government is interested in the matter. Also, we
will write to the Ministry of Education to investigate
the school as we learnt that this was not the first time
cases of sexual abuse would come up.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP
Joe Offor, confirmed the teacher’s arrest and added that
the police had visited the scene of the crime and would
charge the suspect to court after investigation was
concluded.

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