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Man jailed for life for impregnating 14-year-old daughter

Bature Magaji by Bature Magaji
November 24, 2022
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An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on  Wednesday sentenced a man Adewale Ibitoye to life imprisonment for having sexual intercourse with his 14-year-old daughter.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports  that Justice Abiola Soladoye also sentenced Ibitoye’s friend,  Moses Okrukpe to life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating the survivor at the age of 14.

Soladoye held that the prosecution had convincingly proved the charge of defilement against the convicts.

She condemned the barbaric act of the first defendant for having sex with her underage daughter several times before passing her to her friend for a pseudo marriage, over a bottle of gin.

The judge said: “the survivor, testified that her father had sexual intercourse with her on several occasions and that her father gave her hand in marriage to the second convict after he visited their house and gifted her father, a bottle of gin.

“She said that the second defendant had sexual intercourse with her which led to pregnancy and the first defendant in his testimony, confirmed that he collected a bottle of gin from his friend as wedding rights.

“The testimony of the survivor was  vivid and unshaken during cross-examination as the first prosecution witness, a pastor,  testified before the court that the survivor lost the two months old baby due to lack of care and malnutrition.

“The testimony of the third prosecution witness, a police investigative officer (IPO) also confirmed to the court that the survivor was  14 years when she started living the the second defendant as his wife and that he registered her in a local hospital in Ijebu Ode while she was pregnant with the baby.”

Soladoye maintained that it was right before the court that a 14-year-old girl cannot give consent in a marriage  and condemned the first defendant for engaging her daughter in the uncultured act.

She referred to the convicts as “beast in human form” who should serve the remaining of their lives behind bars as they should not be seen among the sane in the society.

“The first convict who had a canal knowledge of her own daughter is everything a father should not be. This is taboo and incest.

“He gave his underage  daughter out in marriage to his friend for a bottle of gin. This is highly irresponsible of him as responsible fathers are out there giving the best of education to their children.

“The most pathetic is that the survivor was made to go through torture by making her go through pregnancy at such early age.

“This act is very embarrassing, shameful and animalistic. A father having sexual intercourse  with her daughter and passing her to his friend at age 14  over a bottle of gin is unthinkable.

“The convicts are hereby found guilty as charged  and  hereby sentenced to life imprisonment,” she said.

The judge said the convicts should have their names written in the  Lagos State Sexual Offenders Register.

NAN reports that prosecution team, Mr Olusola Soneye and Ms Abimbola Abolade,  presented three witnesses during the trial while the defendants testified as sole witnesses in the case.

Prosecution said that the convicts  committed the offence sometimes in  2017  Epe, Agbowa, Lagos, in violation of  Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. (NAN)

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