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Ojo Adebayo Bags Life Sentence For Raping Minor In Ekiti
The defendant was arraigned on a one-count charge bordering on rape before, Justice Olalekan Olatawura in March 2022.
According to the charge ” the defendant on 8th of October, 2021 at Ilogbo Ekiti in Ido/Osi LGA of Ekiti State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did rape a nine-year-old girl, contrary to section 31(2) of the Child’s Rights Law, Cap. C7, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012″
In his judgment on Wednesday, Justice Olalekan Olatawura, said: ‘‘identification of the defendant by the victim as the person who raped her is not only compelling but credible, same not having been discredited under cross examination and therefore not mistaken’.
” In all, I find the case well established and proved beyond reasonable doubt by the prosecution that the defendant and no other person used his penis to penetrate the vagina of the defendant.
“Consequently thereupon, the defendant is found guilty as charged. He is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment”, the judge declared.