A school owner has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court for allegedly beating up a two-year-old pupil and causing him bone fracture on his leg.
The school owner identified as Oluwasanmi Oluwakemi is facing a two-count charge bordering on assault.
The Prosecutor, Insp. Clifford Ogu, told the court on Thursday that the offence was committed on the 1st of December 2016 at Mum Isaiah Day care and creche at Mile 12, Lagos.
Insp Ogu explained that the accused beat up one of her pupil at the creche and caused him to have broken leg. “It was when the victim’s mother, Mrs Concalves came to pick her son that she discovered the pain and also noticed that her son could not walk again.
“The victim’s mother also saw scars on her son’s back which connoted that he was beaten,” he added.
According to the prosecutor, the pupil was taken to the hospital for X-ray and the results shows that the pupil has a bone fracture.
He added that the offences contravened sections 171 and 276 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge bordering on assault.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Taiwo Akanni, in her ruling granted bail to the accused in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.
She adjourned the case till February 22.
