Ogun court verdict strengthens faith in justice for GBV survivors – Adeleye

A erstwhile Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development successful Ogun State, Adijat Adeleye, has commended the judiciary for its unwavering committedness to justness pursuing the caller condemnation and sentencing of an offender successful a kid intersexual maltreatment case.

Recall that the State High Court sitting successful Ijebu Ode sentenced 1 Emmanuel Obirija to beingness imprisonment for raping a minor.

The judgement delivered by Justice Catherine Ogunsanya recovered the perpetrator blameworthy of an discourtesy bordering connected unlawful intersexual intercourse with a minor.

DAILY POST reports that the lawsuit was reported astatine the State Sexual Assault Referral Centre, SARC, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu connected 2nd of December, 2022.

Adeleye, successful a connection on Saturday, described the judgement arsenic a reassuring objection that the courts stay the eventual sanctuary for victims seeking redress and a captious pillar successful the extortion of susceptible members of society.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Ifo/Ewekoro Federal Constituency candidate, stated that the judgement further strengthens the increasing content that survivors of Gender-Based Violence, GBV, and their families should ne'er suffer religion successful the j...