Rapist jailed 8 years for defiling 12-year-old

Justice Adekanye Ogunmoye  of a High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Friday jailed a casual labourer, Innocent Eze  for eight  years for raping a twelve-year-old girl.
Eze,  an indigene of Nsukka, Enugu State, bagged one year for indecent assault and seven years for the defilement, the two counts which, according to the judgment were contrary to Sections 360 and 218 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap C38, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.
Justice Adekanye, in his judgment, recalled that the convict, on August 31, 2011, in Ijan-Ekiti, had seized the young girl who had just assisted him to fetch water from a well, threw her onto his bed  and raped her.
He, according to the judgment, later stuffed a handkerchief in the violated girl’s private part when blood started oozing out after the act and also gave her N100 to “buy drugs.”
 The judgment read in part: “This is definitely a barbaric act and the sentence must be such as would serve as deterrent to the convict and others who still harbor similar tendencies.
“Accordingly, my sentence on the convict is that he is sentenced to 1 year imprisonment in count 1 and he is also sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in count 2. Terms are concurrent.”
Justice Adekanye said: “It’s unfortunate that a 12-year-old girl would have been sexually defiled as was done to the victim in this case. It is more unfortunate that the matter came to the public domain.
“The convict by his act had succeeded in placing a stigma on the person of the victim, which may take a long time to erase. The trauma suffered by the victim is definitely such as would take a longer time to forget.
“The act of the convict is not such as should be encouraged. This is definitely a barbaric act and the sentence must be such as would serve as deterrence to the convict and others who still harbour similar tendencies.”

 

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