Court sentences man to life imprisonment for defiling minor in church
Ifeanyi Ndieze, who sexually abused a four-year-old child in a Lagos church, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday by an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court.
After finding Ndieze guilty of the crime, Justice Abiola Soladoye delivered the verdict.
Soladoye ruled that the prosecution established the convict’s charge of sexual assault by penetration.
During the trial, the prosecution introduced four witnesses, including the victim’s six-year-old brother, who claimed that the offender carried his four-year-old sister and sexually assaulted her by inserting his finger into her private part during a church programme around 9 p.m.
The victim’s mother also testified that after they got home while she was bathing her, she was bleeding profusely and then she was taken, to the hospital where the doctors advised her to report the matter to the police.
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Prosecutor told the court that the offence was committed on October 29, 2020, at No. 18, Salau Street, in the Surulere area of Lagos State.
Delivering her judgment on Tuesday, the judge said, “The ingredients of sexual assault by penetration were thoroughly satisfied under Section 261 of the Criminal Law by the prosecution. This is unforgivable behavior.
“The defendant is hereby found guilty of sexually assaulting a four-year-old child, and he is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment.”
She further directed the convict’s name to be entered on the Lagos State Sexual Offences Register.