Faith Galadima, 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 adolescent was delivered of the baby at Injita village, Munya Local Government Area of Niger State.

The VP had supposedly slept with the student sometime in March this year, placing her in the family way.

The accused was remanded from the prison prosecution for three months after he pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The victim, who narrated her ordeal to journalists on Tuesday, said that she gave birth to the infant on October 28, after she was returned to her parents by her guardians in August.

Faith stated that throughout the length of the pregnancy, she and her family did not receive any assistance from the vice principal.

She cried for help from the state authorities to enable her 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,” she said.

Meanwhile, Haruna Galadima, the 65-year-old father of the victim, decried the neglect of his daughter by Mohammed, noting that she did not receive any assistance during and after the pregnancy.

Galadima encouraged the state government to aid his daughter to come back to college and make certain that justice prevailed in the issue.

“When I heard that my daughter was impregnated by the vice principal in her school, I regretted sending her to school, because a teacher who was supposed to teach and correct her was the one responsible for her predicament.

“What I want now is for my daughter to be taken care of by the man who put her in the family way; he should take full responsibility for the baby’s needs,” he added.

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 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.

She gave the assurance that the agency would get justice for the victim and see that she returned to school.

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.

Source: https://aderonkebamidele.com/16-year-old-student-impregnated-by-vice-principal-gives-birth/