Man Bags 30 Years Imprisonment For Raping 9-Year-Old Girl

A 70-year-old man, Mohammed Sani Umar, has been sentenced to 30 years imprisonment with hard labour by a Minna magistrate’s court for raping a 9-year-old girl. The convict, who pleaded guilty to raping the little girl in Chanchaga area, vowed to appeal the judgement.

The prosecutor presented two witnesses; the victim and the Police officer who investigated the case and recorded the confessional statement of the convict. In her testimony, the nine years old victim told the court that the convict had sex with her twice and threatened her with a snake not to tell anyone and also gave her the sum of N50. Similarly, the Police told the court that the convict, during investigation, confessed to committing the crime. According to him, “Mohammed Sani Umar confessed to committing the crime and the medical report gotten showed that there was penetration.”