75-year-old man bags 10 years for defiling 11-year-old girl in Rivers State

Rivers State Family Court sitting successful Port Harcourt has sentenced a 75-year-old man, Promise Chukwumatti, to 10 years imprisonment without an enactment of good for defiling an 11-year-old girl.

The tribunal besides ordered the convict to wage the sum of 1 cardinal naira arsenic compensation to the victim’s household and directed that his sanction beryllium included successful the Rivers State enactment offenders’ register.

Chukwumatti was arraigned connected a one-count complaint of defilement of a minor.

Delivering judgement connected Wednesday, the proceedings judge, Justice Rita Oguguo, held that the prosecution had proven the complaint beyond tenable uncertainty done oral testimony, a confessional statement, and different grounds presented earlier the court.

According to the prosecution, Chukwumatti had carnal cognition of the insignificant connected respective occasions successful his apartment, aft luring her with wealth portion she was connected her mode to school.

The tribunal upheld the presumption of the prosecution counsel, Chief State Counsel Precious Ordu of the Rivers State Ministry of Justice, that Chukwumatti so committed the offence against the child.

Justice Oguguo noted that though the convict pleaded for leniency, the instrumentality prescribes beingness imprisonment for specified an offence.

She said the court, however, took into information the information that his children are motherless earlier opting for a ten-year word without an enactment of f...