The Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja yesterday convicted and sentenced a man, Dennis Okubiat, to 20 years imprisonment for raping a 12-year-old church member for three months which led to urinary incontinence. Justice Ismail Ijelu found the convict guilty after reviewing the victim’s evidence which colluded with that of the medical report.
The judge also held that the prosecuting counsel Babatunde Sunmonu, proved the one-count charge of child defilement brought against the convict beyond all reasonable doubt. Sunmonu had told the court that the convict committed the offence on September 6, 2021, at about 10 am, in Tomoron Village Lagos Island, contrary to Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.
But during the visit, she claimed that the convict offered her a meal of garri and groundnut, and after eating, she slept off. “When I woke up, I saw a white substance in my private part, and I woke Okubiat up and asked him what happened to me; he said if I told anybody, he would kill me”.
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