A Minna Senior Magistrate Court in Angwan Daji, Niger State has sentenced 55-year-old Yau Ibrahim to life imprisonment for defiling a six-year-old girl.
Ibrahim was arraigned before the court on August 15, 2023, for allegedly having unlawful sexual intercourse with the girl.
In the charge sheet, it was also alleged that he infected the girl with an undisclosed sexually transmitted disease.
The police prosecutor, Inspector Aliyu Yakubu Kuta had called two witnesses during the trial who testified as prosecuting witnesses one and two, and they gave vivid pictures of how the convict sexually abused the girl.
The prosecutor tendered two exhibits which included the confessional statement of the convict and a medical report from Rayuwal sexual reference center Police Clinic in Minna.
The convict had pleaded guilty and leniency but the senior magistrate Hajiya Hafsat Abdullahi Bawa Wuse asserted that considering the magnitude of the offense committed by him deserved no leniency from the court.
The presiding magistrate averred that the action of the convict had left an indelible stigma on the little girl and therefore found him guilty on one count charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child punishable under section 26 (2) of the child right law 2021 as amended and she convicted him accordingly.
“The court hereby sentences Ibrahim Yau to imprisonment for life for the offence of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child punishable under 2021 child rights law as amended,” she ruled.
Wise is the first senior magistrate to have invoked the full wrath of life imprisonment on rapists in Niger State.
