Teachers they say, their reward is in heaven, but these days, some teachers tend to get their reward from their own student in the wrong way. An Abuja Customary Court sitting at Jiwa, ordered one William Thomas, a school teacher to pay N40, 000 as damages for impregnating a secondary school student out of wedlock.
He was also ordered by the judge to pay a monthly maintenance fee of N10, 000 for the baby’s upkeep.
Thomas was arraigned following a complaint by the father of the girl, who had accused him of unlawfully putting his 25 year-old daughter in the family way without parental consent.
The girl’s father said the action had jeopardized the education of the girl, a secondary school student even as the accused had abandoned her while she carried the pregnancy..
