A 23-year-old Islamic school teacher, Yusuf Yunusa, has been arrested by the Jigawa State Police Command for allegedly sodomising 12 of his students in Gwaram Local Government Area of the state.

The state Commissioner of Police A.T. Abdullahi, disclosed this while parading the suspect and others at the command’s headquarters in Dutse on Wednesday.

According to him, “On July 11, 2024, at about 2100hrs, information was received at the Gwaram Divisional Police Headquarters that, on the same date at about 1400hrs, one Yusuf Yunusa, aged 23, 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 semen.”

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

He said a medical report confirmed the commission of the crime on 10 out of the 12 victims.

The CP said the suspect was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Dutse for a discreet investigation.

He said the suspect had confessed to the commission of the crime and would soon be charged in court.

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