- The convict, a generator mechanic, was said to have committed the crime in 2021 in Oyigbo, Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state.
In Rivers state, One Anayor Ugo has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for defiling and impregnating a 12-year-old girl.
Anayor was convicted and sentenced without an option of fine by a magistrate court in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
The convict, a generator mechanic, was said to have committed the crime in 2021 in Oyigbo, Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state.
He had gone to the victim’s residence in the area to carry out repairs on their power generator at the instance of the victim’s father but he ended up defiling the underage girl.
He also put the victim in the family way in the process and threatened to kill the girl if she told anyone about the incident and reportedly fled.
However months later, when the girl’s mother started noticing changes in her daughter, she confronted her and the girl opened up and the matter was reported to the police who began hunting for the suspect.
The operatives arrested Ugo on January 7, 2022, and charged the matter to court.
Although Ugo had during the trial admitted having carnal knowledge of the girl, he denied ejaculating, saying it was the latter that held him when he went to repair their generator and dragged him inside her room before he had carnal knowledge of her.
The trial Chief Magistrate, Rita Ogugua, in her judgment, said the prosecution was able to prove their case of defilement and having carnal knowledge of the underage girl through evidence and admission by Ugo, who is in his early 50s.
Ogugua thereafter convicted and sentenced Ugo to seven years imprisonment without an option of fine.
She said her ruling followed Ugo’s plea for mercy after being convicted before the sentence.
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