50-year-old man gets two years imprisonment for defiling 14-year-old girl

A Minna Magistrates’ Court on Monday sentenced a 50-year-old man, Umar Garba, to two years imprisonment without option of fine for defiling a 14-year-old girl.

The convict was arraigned on one-count charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

The Police Prosecutor, Insp. Daniel Ikwoche told the court that one Rabiu Isa of Fadipo area, Minna reported the matter at the GRA Police station on April 22, 2014.

Ikwoche said the complainant had on April 20, discovered that his 14-year-old daughter was pregnant.

He said the girl told her father that the respondent was responsible for the pregnancy.

The prosecutor said the accused had sexual intercourse with the girl in his room when her step mum sent her to deliver porridge, locally known as fura, to him.

The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 18 of the Niger State Child Right Act.

When the charge was read to Garba, he pleaded guilty, blaming the “devil” for his action, and asked the court for leniency.

The prosecutor thereafter urged the court to try him summarily in line with section 157 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

In her ruling, Magistrate Mariam King sentenced the accused to two years imprisonment without option of fine. (NAN)