An Egor Magistrates’ Court in Benin City, Edo State on Friday sentenced a 62-year-old pastor, Alfred Idonogie, to two years imprisonment for defiling a 10-year-old girl.
Chief Magistrate Taye Omoruyi found Idonogie guilty of the offence after the prosecutor presented five witnesses who testified in proof of the charge.
The prosecution witnesses included the victim’s grandmother, the girl, the investigating police officer and a medical doctor, who established that there was penetration into the little girl’s private part.
The court said that the accused committed the offence on June 25, 2013 at Onaghino Street, Medical Stores Road, Benin City.
The judge said the convict would spend six months in jail if he agreed to pay a fine of N200,000
Counsel to the accused, U. Osa-Uwagie, indicated his interest to contest the judgment on appeal.
The Coordinator, Edo State Child Protection Network, Jennifer Ero, who took up the matter, said the judgment was a victory for the child.
Ero urged the public to be committed in the fight against child abuse.
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