Niger court jails man 13 years, orders 20 strokes for defiling 10-year-old

A Minna Senior Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 25-year-old man, Bala Aliyu, to 13 years successful situation and ordered him to person 20 strokes of the cane for sexually abusing a 10-year-old miss successful Bosso country of Minna, Niger State.

Senior Magistrate, Samira Jibrin Wambai of Court No. 9, besides ordered Aliyu to wage ₦250,000 compensation to the victim.

The condemnation was enforced astatine the palace of the District Head of Bosso, Malam Muazu Adamu Laka, wherever Aliyu received the 20 strokes successful the beingness of members of his household and the wider community.

The lawsuit was prosecuted by the Niger State Child Rights Protection Agency, NSCRPA, led by its Director-General, Ummul-Kalthume Muhammed.

Reacting to the judgment, Muhammed described it arsenic a important measurement successful the combat against kid intersexual maltreatment and gender-based violence.

She warned perpetrators that the authorities would not shield them from justice, portion urging communities to halt protecting offenders and study suspected cases of maltreatment to the authorities.

Prosecuting counsel from the Niger State Ministry of Justice, Aisha Ashafa, besides described the judgement arsenic a precedent-setting decision.

Ashafa disclosed that the victim’s parent had initially considered withdrawing the lawsuit earlier yet allowi...