Jigawa: Police arrest teacher for allegedly sodomising 12 Almajiri children

Jigawa State Police Command has arrested a 23-year-old Islamic school teacher, Yusuf Yunusa, for allegedly sodomizing 12 of his students in Gwaram Local Government.

The State Commissioner of Police, A T. Abdullahi, paraded the suspect at the Command’s headquarters in Dutse, revealing that the suspect had formed a habit of taking his pupils to different locations and forcing them to engage in sexual acts with him.

According to the Commissioner, the suspect would take the children out under the guise of massaging his penis and sucking it, forcing them to swallow his semen.

“On 11/07/2024 at about 2100hrs, information was received at Gwaram Divisional Police Headquarters that, on the same date at about 1400hrs, one Yusuf Yunusa, 23 years of Gwaram town, a teacher of an Almajiri Islamic school, formed the habit of taking some of his pupils out to different locations and forcing them to massage his penis and suck it, in the process compels them to swallow his seme.

“On receipt of this very unfortunate and ugly report, detectives attached to Gwaram Division swiftly swung into action and arrested the suspect. He was brought to the Division for preliminary investigation,” the statement read.

A medical report confirmed the commission of the crime on 10 out of the 12 victims.

The suspect has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Dutse for further investigation.

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