The sexual offences and domestic violence court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has sentenced one Stephen Francis, a man, to life imprisonment over alleged rape of an 11-year-old pupil
The sexual offences and domestic violence court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has sentenced one Stephen Francis to life imprisonment over an alleged rape of an 11-year-old pupil.
Abiola Soladoye, the presiding judge, on Wednesday, ruled that the prosecution sufficiently proved that Francis raped the victim. “The survivor, an 11-year-old primary five pupil, identified the defendant in the dock as the man who sexually defiled her when he told her that his wife was calling her to run an errand for her,” the judge was quoted by NAN.
“The evidence of the prosecution witness 2 that she examined the private part of her daughter and found sperm confirmed the narration of the survivor.
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