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Nigeria - A retired soldier, Alabi Ibrahim, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ogun state high court for raping his 10-year-old stepdaughter and infecting her with HIV.
The convict committed the crime in 2012 at his home where the victim and her mother resided.
He was subsequently arrested and tried, following the intervention of Ogun State Chapter of Child Protection Network, an umbrella body of Non-Governmental Organisations, NGO’s which fights for the rights of children.
Earlier during the trial under case number AB/37/C/14, a medical report presented in the court from the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, established that the convict had sexually assaulted the girl and also infected her with HIV.
The report tendered by Dr Seyi Adejobi showed that the girl had been penetrated, while blood investigation also revealed that she has HIV, as the the convict.
The victim told the court that she lost count of the number of times her step father had sex with her, saying at the end of every sex, the convict always threatened that she would die if she should told anybody.
“I am fully convinced that the accused had repeatedly had sex with the girl. I found the accused guilty as charged. I find it not in my mind to show any mercy. The man is shameless, sleeping with mother and child, what an abomination. People like him need not to be in the society. I therefore sentence him to life imprisonment. He should however be given access to reasonable treatment,” Justice A A Akinyemi ruled.
The convict committed the crime in 2012 at his home where the victim and her mother resided.
He was subsequently arrested and tried, following the intervention of Ogun State Chapter of Child Protection Network, an umbrella body of Non-Governmental Organisations, NGO’s which fights for the rights of children.
Earlier during the trial under case number AB/37/C/14, a medical report presented in the court from the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, established that the convict had sexually assaulted the girl and also infected her with HIV.
The report tendered by Dr Seyi Adejobi showed that the girl had been penetrated, while blood investigation also revealed that she has HIV, as the the convict.
The victim told the court that she lost count of the number of times her step father had sex with her, saying at the end of every sex, the convict always threatened that she would die if she should told anybody.
“I am fully convinced that the accused had repeatedly had sex with the girl. I found the accused guilty as charged. I find it not in my mind to show any mercy. The man is shameless, sleeping with mother and child, what an abomination. People like him need not to be in the society. I therefore sentence him to life imprisonment. He should however be given access to reasonable treatment,” Justice A A Akinyemi ruled.
