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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Igando, Lagos State, Nigeria · 2022

Nigeria: Islamic cleric sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his five-year-old Arabic school pupil

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Alfa; proprietor/instructor, Arabic school

Organization

Olorunbabe Mosque Arabic school

Spiritual nexus

Salaudeen was the victim's Quranic/Arabic school teacher and the assault occurred on the mosque-school premises where her family had placed her in his instructional care — the same institutional religious-authority relationship as other admitted madrasa-principal and Quranic-teacher records in the corpus.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2022-10-26 · trial and sentencing

    Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, Nigeria. Justice Abiola Sholadoye convicted Abdulsalam Salaudeen of defiling his five-year-old female Arabic school pupil and sentenced him to life imprisonment; ordered his name registered in the state Sex Offenders Register.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • institutional authority as the victim's Quranic/Arabic school teacher
  • access via the mosque/school premises where the child was placed in his care

Primary record

Sources

national press sentencing report FIJ, '4 Years After, Islamic Cleric Who Raped His 5-Year-Old Pupil Jailed for Life' (2022).

Reports that Abdulsalam Salaudeen, an Arabic school teacher, was sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his five-year-old pupil at Olorunbabe Mosque, Igando, Lagos, four years after the offence. States the assault came to light via hidden-camera footage installed by suspicious neighbours, and that the defence unsuccessfully claimed he had been the target of an enemy's spell.

national press sentencing report Punch, 'Lagos Islamic cleric bags life imprisonment for rape' (26 October 2022).

Confirms the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, sentenced Abdulsalam Salaudeen to life imprisonment for the December 2018 rape of his 5-year-old Arabic-school pupil at the Olorunbabe Mosque premises, No. 15 Palace Road, Igando; orders registration in the sex offenders register.

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