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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Kontagora, Niger State, Nigeria · 2019

Nigeria: Islamic school teacher sentenced to seven years for the anal rape of thirty-five pupils

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Islamic school teacher

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Abdullahi's role as the pupils' Islamic teacher gave him routine, unsupervised access to children placed in his instructional care by their families for religious education, which he used systematically over several months to lure 35 boys individually into his room.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2019-08-05 · trial and sentencing

    Chief Magistrates' Court, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. Magistrate Hauwa Yusuf convicted Abubakar Abdullahi, 33, on a guilty plea to an unnatural offence contrary to section 284 of the Penal Code, and sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment with hard labour, with an option of a N2 million fine after the first four years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • institutional authority as the pupils' Islamic teacher, used to lure them individually into his room over several months

Primary record

Sources

national press sentencing report Premium Times, 'Islamic teacher jailed seven years for raping 35 boys' (5 August 2019).

Reports that a Minna Chief Magistrates' Court sentenced Abubakar Abdullahi, 33, a resident of Sabon Gari, Kontagora, to seven years' imprisonment for anal rape of 35 of his pupils, aged 9 to 14, lured individually into his room between March and July that year. States he pleaded guilty and was sentenced under section 284 of the Penal Code (unnatural offence), with an option of a N2 million fine after four years served.

national press sentencing report Tribune Online, 'Islamic teacher jailed 7yrs for anal sex with 35 boys in Niger' (5 August 2019).

Corroborates the conviction, guilty plea, and sentence, confirming the pupils were lured into the teacher's room on separate occasions.

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