Justice Rahman Oshodi of a Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, yesterday, sentenced 42-year-old Suleiman Usman to life imprisonment for defiling his daughter. THE GUARDIAN reports.
The judge sentenced him after he was found guilty as charged.
Lagos State government had arraigned Usman on two-count charge bordering on defilement of his two daughters, who were eight and five years respectively, at his No.2 Bale Street, Onisewo in Apapa area of Lagos State.Information Guide Nigeria
The defendant was 37 years when he committed that offence in 2018, while the survivors were eight and five years.
His offence contravened the provisions of section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.
He had pleaded not guilty to the two counts charge.
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Usman was first arraigned before Justice Sybil Nwaka, sometime in October 2019 before the judge was elevated to the Court of Appeal and the case file was reassigned to Justice Oshodi wherein he was re-arraigned on two counts charge.
He also pleaded not guilty to the two counts and the prosecution commenced trial.
During the trial, the prosecution called four witnesses, among which, was the first survivor, the eight-year-old, the Investigative Police Officer (IPO), the defendant’s wife and mother of the survivors, and a medical doctor from Mirabel Centre.JAMB Result
In her testimony, the survivor identified the defendant as her father and narrated how she was repeatedly defiled by the father.
She further testified of informing her school teacher, who is close to her mother.
She told the court that she did not tell her mother because the defendant had warned and threatened that she would die if she did so.
