The chairman of the Adamawa State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Rodney Nathan has debunked claims that a teacher raped and impregnated a 12 year old girl.
Nathan stated that the girl is a student of Government Secondary School while the teacher teaches in a Primary school.
According to him, the police command should not conclude the case to be rape because the girl had keys to the teachers house and dated him for 6 months before the pregnancy was discovered.
The NUT chairman contended that “One cannot call a mutual relationship between a schoolgirl and her teacher who are mutually in love a rape case.
He added that the fact that the girl was “carrying a six-month pregnancy, (was) an indication that a long-term relationship had existed between the teacher and the schoolgirl.”
The NUT chairman asked, “At what point did the rape take place, was it six months ago, or now that it was discovered the schoolgirl is carrying a six-month pregnancy?”