Court jails two for flogging 12-year-old housemaid to death in Lagos

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court connected Thursday sentenced 2 men to 15 years’ imprisonment each for the decease of a 12-year-old housemaid they brutally flogged.

The convicts, Edidiong Edem, a creator aged 22, and Alex Effiong-Etim, a 21-year-old mechanic, were handed the jailhouse presumption by Justice Abiola Soladoye aft entering a plea bargain connected an amended complaint of involuntary manslaughter.

Delivering judgment, the tribunal recovered the duo blameworthy and imposed a 15-year custodial condemnation connected each of them.

Justice Soladoye ruled that the punishment would instrumentality effect from the day the convicts were archetypal remanded successful a correctional facility.

The tribunal heard that the men flogged the unfortunate with a broom, an battle that yet resulted successful her death.

Edem and Effiong-Etim were initially arraigned earlier the tribunal connected February 25, 2022, wherever they pleaded not blameworthy to the charge. However, they aboriginal opted for a plea bargain statement dated February 25, which led to the amended complaint of involuntary manslaughter.

Earlier during proceedings, the prosecution, led by authorities counsel Oluwaseun Ade...