An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti has sentenced 62-year-old Daudu Jimoh to life imprisonment for raping a nine-year-old girl in Ilupeju Ekiti. The
An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti has sentenced 62-year-old Daudu Jimoh to life imprisonment for raping a nine-year-old girl in Ilupeju Ekiti.The charge reads “that Daudu Jimoh on 27/9/2019 at Ilupeju Ekiti within the jurisdiction of this honorable court did rape a nine year old girl, contrary to Section 31 of the Child’s Rights Law, Cap. C7, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.”
“Whenever he had sex with me, I was always afraid to tell my mother because he had warned me not to tell anybody or else I will die,” she concluded. In his judgment, Justice Lekan Ogunmoye said, the confessional statements of the defendant, both written and oral showed without equivocation that the defendant indeed committed the offence.
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