A female school teacher, Dupe Ehiorobo, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, for allegedly assaulting a four-year-old pupil.
The police charged Ehiorobo, 45, a teacher at Access Ville School, Ipaja, Lagos with assault.
The woman, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The prosecutor, Insp John Iberedem, told the court that Ehiorobo committed the offence on May 13 at Access Ville School, Ipaja, Lagos.
According to him, Ehiorobo assaulted the pupil by flogging him mercilessly on his body, which inflicted injuries on his back and laps.
He said the classteacher flogged the pre-school pupil for misbehaving in the class.
Iberedem said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 172 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The court reports that Section 172 attracts one-year imprisonment to anyone found guilty of unlawful assault.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs E. Kubeinje admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum, according to the news Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
She ordered that the sureties should show evidence of tax payment to the state government and their addresses be verified.
