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A Idris Hassan, 35, was found guilty of raping an eight-year-old girl and was given a life sentence by the Delta State High Court in Asaba.
The defendant was charged with one count of rape in court and sentenced in accordance with Section 218 of the Delta State of Nigeria’s 2006 Criminal Code Law, Cap. C21, Vol. 1 Laws.
On August 22, 2022, he was accused of having improper carnal knowledge of the juvenile and entered a not guilty plea to the accusation.
The prosecution led by Director Sexual Offences, Domestic Violence and Childs’ Rights Unit in the Delta State Ministry of Justice, Mrs Patricia Akamagwuna, called six witnesses and tendered confessional statement of the convict, who was a gate man to a neighbour of the minor.
The prosecution told the court that the minor was at home with her two elder siblings, when the defendant lured her to take biscuits and thereafter, forced himself on her.
The prosecution said the minor’s neighbour caught the defendant in the act and was, subsequently, arrested by police officers from the ‘B’ Division, Asaba.
In his defence, the defendant denied the charge and retracted the confessional statement, stating that there was no sexual contact between him and the minor.
Delivering his judgement, the trial judge, Justice Onome Marshal-Umukoro, said he believed the evidence of the prosecution, noting that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
The court, subsequently, sentenced the convict to life imprisonment.
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