Court orders teenager to clean church for 6 months

The FCT High Court in Zuba, Abuja, has ordered a 17-year-old boy to clean the premises of Ss Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nyanya, every day for six months, for indecent assault on a 5-year-old girl. Justice Kezziah Ogbonnaya, who gave the order on Monday, advised the convict to desist from committing crime and be […]

The FCT High Court in Zuba, Abuja, has ordered a 17-year-old boy to clean the premises of Ss Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nyanya, every day for six months, for indecent assault on a 5-year-old girl.

Justice Kezziah Ogbonnaya, who gave the order on Monday, advised the convict to desist from committing crime and be of good behaviour.

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Donaldtus Abbah, had told the court that the teenager, an apprentice at a barber’s shop in Area C, Nyanya, Abuja, committed the crime on Dec. 17, 2024.

Abbah said that the teenager defiled a 5-year-old girl on the said date, adding that the offence contravened the provisions of Sections 1(1), 2 of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015. (NAN)

The teenager pleaded guilty and begged the court for mercy.

His defence counsel, K. L. Ogbe, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy, considering that the boy was just 17-year-old.(NAN)