Ayinde Kareem/

A private secondary school teacher has been arrested by the police in Ogun State for allegedly forcefully having unlawful carnal knowledge of his 15-year-old student.

Identified as 26-year-old Mathew Adebayo the teacher was arrested following a report by the proprietress of the school who reported at Sango police station that she was informed by one of her SS3 students that the suspect had been raping her repeatedly since the resumption of the school in preparation for the WAEC examination.

According to a statement by Ogun State police spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the proprietress told the police that the teacher intimidated the victim by telling her that she will not pass the WAEC exams, unless he has sex with her, and he has been calling her out of the dormitory in the night and taking her to a classroom where he used to have carnal knowledge of her.

Oyeyemi stated: “When the victim could no longer bear the sexual assault of the randy teacher, she decided to inform the proprietress.

“Upon the report, the DPO Sango Division, CSP Godwin Idehai detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested. He has since then made a confessional statement admitting the commission of the crime. The victim has been taken to hospital for medical attention.

“Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police (CP) Edward A. Ajogun has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the anti-human trafficking and child labor unit of the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.