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Court jails man for raping 15-yr-old

By Sade Adewale, Ondo

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A 20-year-old man, Stephanus Stephen, has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment by the Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ondo town, for unlawfully having carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old girl (names withheld).

Stephen was convicted by Chief Magistrate Charity Adeyanju, on a lone count of rape brought against him by the police.

The police arraigned the defendant for forcefully defiling the complainant in her father’s house between February and May 2022 at No 5 Morolayo street, Valentino in Ondo.

The  prosecutor, Mr Benard Olagbayi, informed court that the convict molested the victim on different occasions.

The charge read in part,” That you, Stephanus Stephen, between February and May 2022 at No 5, Morobayo  street, Valentine, Ondo in the Ondo Magisterial District did unlawfully have carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old girl (names withheld) and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 221(1) of the Criminal Code Cap 37 Volume 1 Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006.

The convict  entered a plea of guilt.

Olagbayi, therefore, prayed the court to sentence him according to his plea, as he  was not legally represented  in court.

The presiding magistrate, Mrs Charity Adeyanju, found the defendant guilty and convicted him accordingly.

Adeyanju, therefore, sentenced the convict to 12 months imprisonment without an option of a fine.

The victim, names withheld) narrated, “ I was asleep in my family’s  living room when Stephen came to meet me and started touching me, I was scared. So, I started shouting, but nobody was around. It was just myself and him in the house.

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“He forced himself on me and raped me. He was more stronger than me. He also told me not to talk and that if I should tell anyone , he would kill me. I was very scared to tell anybody because of his threat.

“Around May again, he threatened me that if I did not cooperate with him, he would kill me and my sister. I was crying and I could not do anything,. So, I cooperated with him. Thereafter,  I had to tell my mother and she got him arrested.

“He was the one who deflowered me on the first day he raped me because  it was painful and I saw blood on my private part.”

On his part, the convict did not deny the offence he was charged with. But he pleaded for forgiveness.

Consequently, the sentence was handed down on him.

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