{"id":304883,"date":"2024-01-09T07:35:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T06:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=304883"},"modified":"2024-01-09T07:35:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T06:35:46","slug":"lagos-court-sentences-guard-to-life-imprisonment-for-raping-13-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/01\/09\/lagos-court-sentences-guard-to-life-imprisonment-for-raping-13-year-old-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos court sentences guard to life imprisonment for raping 13-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The judge also chided the Ikoyi Custodial Centre for the loopholes in its operation, accusing the centre of being behind the delay in hearing the case and delivering justice<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>One Olawale Olarewaju has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a 12-year-old girl in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/01\/08\/man-28-defiles-9-month-old-baby-in-lagos\/\">Lagos State.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Olarewaju, a guard, was convicted and sentenced by Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The judge also chided the Ikoyi Custodial Centre for the loopholes in its operation, accusing the centre of being behind the delay in hearing the case and delivering justice.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant had been in prison custody for eight years before his conviction yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Oshodi held that the case had dismissed for want of diligent prosecution by Justice Sybil Nwaka (retd) when the custodial centre did not produce him before the court for arraignment despite the issuance of a reproduction warrant between 2016 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe defendant was in the Ikoyi Custodial Centre and remained there for about eight years from the day of his remand until he was produced before me on January 3, 2023 for arraignment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proceedings demonstrated gaps in the operation of the Nigeria Correctional Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is mind-boggling to hear that the defendant has been in Ikoyi Custodial Centre since 2016 but was brought to court for the first time in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe correctional centre was directly responsible for the defendant\u2019s long period of awaiting trial and this is appalling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his judgment, Oshodi held that the prosecution proved the ingredients of defilement with charge number LD\/2359C\/2016 against the defendant.<\/p>\n<p>The judge stated that the survivor, ( now 18 years old) testified before the court that she was 13 years when the defendant had carnal knowledge of her and that the convict was a security guard at a construction site.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the survivor told the court that the convict forcefully had sex with her when she went to fetch water at the site.<\/p>\n<p>The judge said: \u201cThe prosecutrix gave her testimony and said that she went to fetch water at the construction site where the defendant (convict) worked when he came from her back, closed her mouth, and found herself in the room with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said that the defendant \u2018tore my clothe, and forcefully had sex with me and I started having pains in my vagina.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe testified further that she informed her parents about the incident and her father reported the case at the nearest police station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prosecutrix further told the court that she was taken to Mirabel Medical Centre for examination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oshodi said that the evidence of the survivor was substantiated with that of her father who was the Prosecution Witness Two.<\/p>\n<p>He said the survivor gave a vivid and unshaken testimony of what the defendant did to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defendant\u2019s denial does not hold water as he admitted knowing the prosecutrix but made a u-turn during cross-examination that he did not know her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also admitted that the prosecution came to the compound to fetch water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The judge held that Olarewaju contradicted himself and made his evidence-in-chief unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>He thereafter convicted him of the charge and sentenced him to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Oshodi said that the convict\u2019s name should be entered in the Sexual Offences Register maintained by the Lagos State Government.<\/p>\n<p>During the trial, the prosecution called two witnesses while the defendant testified as the sole witness.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judge also chided the Ikoyi Custodial Centre for the loopholes in its operation, accusing the centre of being behind the delay in hearing the case and delivering justice. 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