Man bags 30 years for raping 9-year-old girl

Seventy-year-old Mohammed Sani Umar has been sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by a Minna Magistrate 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 case. The prosecutor presented two witnesses who include the victim and the police officer who investigated the […]

Seventy-year-old Mohammed Sani Umar has been sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by a Minna Magistrate 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 case.

The prosecutor presented two witnesses who include the victim and the police officer who investigated the case and recorded the confessional statement of the convict.

In her testimony, the 9-year-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 investigations confessed to committing the crime.

The suspect, who pleaded guilty and didn’t object to the exhibits, declined to cross examine the witnesses, submitting that all their submissions before the court are true.

While delivering judgment on the case, Senior Magistrate Safuratu Abdulkareem Mahmud of Magistrate Court III, Anguwan Daji Minna, found Sani guilty of the offense and sentenced him to 30 years in prison without an option of fine.

The magistrate added that the jail term was in line with Section 18, Subsection 2 of the Child’s Rights Act (2010) of Niger State