Two men have been sentenced to 12 years in prison for defiling a 10-year-old girl in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The duo, Lucky Christopher and
Friday Lenu, were convicted and sentenced by a magistrate court sitting in Port
Harcourt on Tuesday.
The Chief Magistrate, Rita
Oguguo, held that the prosecution was able to prove beyond reasonable doubt
that the accused raped the underage girl.
Oguguo also held that the
statement of the victim and the evidence presented substantiated the statement
of the convicted.
It was revealed that before
April 20, 2022, when the men were arrested, they had raped the little girl on
several occasions. They had also threatened to kill her and her aunt if she
ever revealed what happened.
The chief magistrate convicted
the two men to seven years for count one and five years for count two, making a
total of twelve years each, which is to run concurrently
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