PROFESSOR BAGS TWO YEARS OVER SEX DEMAND FROM FEMALE POST GRADUATE STUDENT

The judge, Justice Maureen Onyekenu   had earlier rejected a suspended sentence and plea bargain which the defendant’s counsel, Francis Omotosho, had pleaded for, noting that suspended sentence and plea bargain should be premised on public interest.

The counsel to the accused, Francis Omotosho had earlier pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy in sentencing his client. The lecturer was first arraigned on November 19 by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on four counts of alteration of age and demanding sex to pass his student.

Penpushing further reports that, the judge decried the gravity of the offence the convict committed, adding that someone must be used “as a scapegoat without letting the issues of sexual harassment in tertiary institutions continue like that.