Teen Impregnated By Vice Principal Gives Birth Plus Her Assaulter Goes Into Hiding

This is child abuse. It shouldn't be covered up. The culprit should face the law instead of looking for somewhere to hide. 

A 16-year-old pupil of the Government Secondary School, Tunga, Niger State, Faith Galadima, who was impregnated by the school’s vice principal, Mohammed Mohammed, has given birth to a baby boy. 

The teenager was delivered of the baby at Injita village, Munya Local Government Area of Niger State. The VP had allegedly slept with the pupil sometime in March this year, putting her in the family way.

The victim, who narrated her ordeal to journalists on Tuesday, said that she gave birth to the baby on October 28, after she was returned to her parents by her guardians in August. Faith said that during the period of the pregnancy, she and her family did not receive any assistance from the vice principal. She solicited help from the state government to enable her to continue with her education.


I am not happy that I am now a mother at this tender age; but I will not allow the incident to shatter my dream of becoming a nurse. I still want to further my studies because I want to be a nurse in the future. The teenage mother advised young people, especially girls, to be committed to their studies and report to the school authorities or their parents any form of abuse by individuals or group of persons.


In her reaction, the Director General of the Niger State Child Rights Protection Agency, Mrs. Mairam Kolo, said the agency had approached the ministry of education to give part of the vice principal’s salary to Faith on a monthly basis for the baby’s upkeep. Kolo also said the agency would file an application before the court for a DNA test to be conducted on the baby to assist police investigation and the court.


Checks revealed that Mohammed had been secretly transferred from GSS Tunga, Minna to an unknown school while the case against him was pending in the court. The Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of Education could not be reached for comment on the transfer of the accused to another school.


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