Man bags life imprisonment for sexually assaulting neighbour’s daughter

The Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State, has sentenced a man, Nurudeen Nasiru, to life imprisonment for introducing pornographic videos to his neighbour’s 13-year-old daughter and sexually assaulting her.

The presiding judge, Justice Abiola Soladoye, held that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt the two-count charge of defilement and indecent treatment of a child against the convict.

Justice Soladoye declared that the convict sexually assaulted the survivor through the anus and also introduced her to pornographic videos.

The judge said: “The defendant was a neighbour who went to the room of the survivor and opened his phone to show her pornographic videos and afterwards forced her to practice what he had shown her on his phone.

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“The defendant, in his confessional statement, admitted to having had sexual intercourse with the survivor.”

Justice Soladoye said the ingredients of the offence of sexual assault by penetration and indecent treatment of a child were thoroughly satisfied under Sections 261 and 135 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.

She, thereafter, convicted Nasiru of the two-count charge.

Justice Soladoye said: “On count one of sexual assault by penetration, the defendant is sentenced to life imprisonment.

“On count two of indecent treatment of a child, the defendant is sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

“The sentencing should run concurrently and his name is to be entered in the Sexual Offenders Register maintained by the Lagos State Government.”

The state counsel, Olusola Soneye, during trial, called three witnesses – a social worker, the survivor, and her father – while the convict testified as a sole witness.

The confessional statement of the convict was tendered as an exhibit by the prosecution.

The prosecutor disclosed that the convict committed the offences at about 3:45 p.m. on Aminu Street, Alapere in the Ketu area of Lagos on February 23, 2021.

The Star