Bricklayer Bags 12 Years In Correctional Custody For Raping 13-yr-old Girl
Magistrate Modupe Awodele of an Osun State Magistrate court yesterday sentenced a 34-year-old bricklayer, Oyedokun Tunde to 12 years in Nigeria Correctional Facility for raping a 13-year-old girl.
The convict was first arraigned on June 25, 2019 and he had pleaded not guilty to the offence leveled against him.
But the prosecutor, Abiodun Fagboyinbo told the court that the man committed the offence sometimes in April 2019 at Balogun street, Omigade Area, Osogbo.
He told the court that the victim got pregnant but lost the baby. He noted that the offence committed by the convict was contrary to and punishable under Section 218 and 222 of Criminal Code, Cap 34, Vol ll, Law of Osun State, 2002.
Delivering her judgement in the Osogbo court, Magistrate Awodele said that the prosecutor has proved his case beyond reasonable doubt adding that the evidence presented before the court was tenable.
She, therefore, convicted Oyedokun Tunde as charged and sentenced him to 12 years in Nigeria Correctional Facility.
