Tricyclist gets life imprisonment for raping 14-year-old in Ondo
A Keke NAPEP driver, Blessing Kingsley was on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment by a High Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
Justice Bode Adegbehingbe who gave the judgement after a two-year trial said the weighty evidence proved without a doubt that Kingsley was guilty of the one-count charge of rape. Instead, Kingsley was said to have driven her to his house under the pretext of making her greet his family and in the process forcefully had sex with her when they got to Kingsley’s abode.
Kingsley was arrested and arraigned before Justice Adegbehingbe on a one-count charge of rape, an offence contrary to and punishable under section 358 of the criminal laws of Ondo State 2006.
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