One Aderonke Makonde, a female teacher, has been charged with assault for beating a nine-year-old pupil who was allegedly making noise in her class.
She is a teacher at Westgate Land Imperial Creche, Nursery and Primary School, Mushin, Lagos.
Aderonje, 35, was arraigned on Wednesday before an Ikeja magistrates’ court, Lagos, NAN reports.
According to the prosecutor, DSP Kehinde Ajayi, Aderonke allegedly assaulted the pupil by “flogging her mercilessly all over her body with a cane and causing her bodily harm,” for noise making in class.
Ajayi noted that the teacher’s offence contravened Section 172 of the Criminal Law of Lagos, 2015.
The Magistrate, Mrs E. Kubeinje, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties each in like sum and adjourned the matter to June 7.